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Willis Haviland Carrier was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning by inventing the first electrical air conditioning unit in 1902. In 1915, he founded Carrier Corporation, a company specializing in the manufacture and distribution of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.
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business · American inventor (1876–1950) · inventor · engineer · businessperson · technician · also Willis Carrier, Willis Haviland Carrier, Carrier
Born 26 November 1876 · Died 29 October 1950 · Q2581759
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The Carrier Corporation had sales of $18
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With a donation from the Carrier Corp
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1985).
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And remained so until 2020, when it was spun off again as an independent publicly traded company
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Died 1950-10-29.
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Won Frank P. Brown Medal (1941).
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And an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Alfred University in 1942
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Won ASME Medal (1934).
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Awarded John Scott Award (1931).
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Carrier started Toyo Carrier in Japan and Korea
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Founded Carrier Corporation, a company specializing in the manufacture and distribution of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (now abbreviated "HVAC") systems
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Carrier presented what is perhaps the most significant document ever prepared on air conditioning –
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The Carrier Air Conditioner Company of America was created as a subsidiary of the Buffalo Forge Company, with Willis Carrier as its vice president
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Carrier discovered that "constant dew-point depression provided practically constant relative humidity," which later became known among air conditioning engineers as the "law of constant dew-point depression
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He also adopted another two children from Jennie Martin, Vernon Gardner Carrier (1903–1985) and Earl Gardner Carrier (1905–1983).
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In response to an air quality problem experienced at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company of Brooklyn, New York, Willis Carrier submitted drawings for what became recognized as the world's first modern
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And graduating in 1901 with a Master of Engineering degree
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And from the Buffalo High School in 1897
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Born 1876-11-26.
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In Angola, New York, the son of Duane Williams Carrier (1836–1908) and Elizabeth R
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