Willis+Carrier

Notes Willis Carrier

1.Willis Carrier was born Nov. 26, 1876,Angola, N.Y. 2.He died Oct. 7, 1950, New York, N.Y.   3. He was a U.S. inventor and industrialist 4.Carrier designed the first system to control temperature and humidity in 1902 5.His scientific air-conditioning design "Rational Psychometric Formulae," was introduced in 1911, 6. he founded the Carrier Engineering Company in 1915 7. which became the world's largest manufacturer of air-conditioning equipment 8.Carrier sold to United Technologies Corporation in 1979. 9.Willis went to Angola Academy 10.before entering Central High School in Buffalo, New York 11.After that he won a state scholarship to attend Cornell University. 12.He graduated from Cornell in 1901 with a degree in electrical engineering 13. After Cornell He went to Buffalo and got a job as a research engineer 14.Carrier became chief engineer of the Buffalo Forge Company firm in 1906. 15.While working with the Buffalo Forge Carrier invented an air washer from which he developed the de-humidifier 16.he realized the importance of humidity the control of air's moisture content 17.he designed for Sackett-Wilhelm Lithography and Publishing Company a system that maintained 55 percent humidity in the building throughout the year at a temperature of 70 degrees in winter and 80 degrees in the summer. 18.By 1907 his system had been installed in several cotton mills and other plants 19.over the next 6 years willis became vice-president of the subsidiary and chief engineer and director of research 20.Willis defined air conditioning as control of air humidity, temperature, purity, and circulation

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Source 2 His father ran the family farm. Willis, inherited his ingienuety and tech skills from his mother his mother fixed family clocks and sewing machines Willis lost his mother at an early age he said that she opened "a new world to me and gave me a pattern for solving problems that I have followed ever since." When he was a kid he wanted to be an engineer He met Edith Claire Seymour ,his first wife, while at Cornell, They married the year after he graduated WW1 made his air conditioning go on hold Carrier and 6 friends made a new company called carrier engineering corp They staked their savings and their futures in it It was located in New Jersey Carrier moved his company to Syracuse, New York, in the 1930s, Dr. Carrier was married three times Edith Claire Seymour died in 1912 so he married Jennie Martin, who died in 1939 In 1941 he remarried to Elizabeth Marsh Wise On Oct. 9, 1950, Willis Carrier died it was just before his 74th birthday He was buried at forest lawn cemetary

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source 3 at buffaloe forge he started on a salary of only $10.00 per week. The first of several patents awarded to Willis, The 'Apparatus for Treating Air' (U.S.Pat# 808897) was granted in 1906, Textile engineer, Stuart H. Cramer came up with the term 'air conditioning' In 1911, Willis Carrier seny his basic “Rational Psychrometric Formulae” to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for a patent. In the air conditioning industry the formula still stands today as the basis in everything He got the idea for while waiting for a train on a humid day Because companies could control the air, film, tobacco, processed meats, medical capsules, textiles and other products acquired significant improvements in quality with air conditioning In 1921, Willis Carrier patented the centrifugal refrigeration machine The result was a safer and more efficient fridge Cooling for human comfort started in 1924, It began in a department store Shoppers flocked to the 'air conditioned' store We still do this today When advertised at the Rivoli theater its summer film business skyrocketed because of the cool comfort In 1928, Willis Carrier developed the first residential air conditioner for home use. It was called the 'Weathermaker' Even though Willis Carrier didn’t create the first system to cool indoors His system was the first truly successful and safe one He’s like the first person to make a fire pit instead of letting it blaze

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Source 4 in the field of air conditioning Carrier received more than 80 patents he received these over 50 years He was the founder and chief executive officer of Carrier Corporation, His full name is Willis Haviland Carrier He was an only childHe was born to Duane and Elizabeth Carrier The net worth of the company had risen from 36,000 at the founding to $4,000,000 in 1930 at the start of the Great DepressionEven with the depression air conditioning still broke through as a major technology Willis Carrier received an honorary Doctorate in Engineering degree from Lehigh UniversityHe also received an honorary Doctorate in Science from Alfred UniversityThe fact that cool air was produced by Carrier's invention wasn’t a big deal Companies viewed it as only a side effect of the dehumidifying process. The first users of the dehumidifier were only interested in increasing the productivity of their factories by getting rid of excess moisture in the air, not comfortafter a while the dehumidifier was in use mostly with textile and brewingcompanies He was elected president of the American Society of Refrigeration Engineers in 1927He was honored as the father of air conditioning in 1949, by the prestigious Newcomen Society of Great Britain In his retirement he spread to the rest of the world the benefits of air conditioning Willis Carrier served as the president of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers in 1931 Carrier retired as chairman of the board of the Carrier Corporation in 1943

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