Willis Carrier

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Willis Carrier in 1915

Willis Haviland Carrier (born November 26, 1876 in Angola (New York) , † October 7, 1950 ) was an American engineer and inventor. He is considered the father of modern air conditioning .

He inherited his mother's love of handicrafts. In 1895 he received a scholarship from Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. He then worked at the Buffalo Forge Company in the department for the development of heating systems for sawn timber and coffee. He devised a better way to measure the capacity of heating systems and became director of the development department.

At the age of 25 he developed a temperature and humidity control system for the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing and Publishing Company in Brooklyn. In 1906 he received a patent for this. The Carrier Air Conditioning Company was initially founded as a subsidiary of Buffalo Forge .

At the end of 1911 he presented his work on formulas of psychrometry . He also developed the carrier diagram (see also Mollier hx diagram ).

As a result of the First World War, Buffalo Forge separated from the air conditioning business and Carrier founded the Carrier Engineering Corporation with six colleagues . In the 1930s he moved it to Syracuse, New York . In 1930, he founded Toyo Carrier and Samsung Applications in Japan and South Korea, the world's largest air conditioning market. It was not until 1919 that a cinema and a department store in the USA were equipped with an air conditioning system designed by Carrier, and in 1939 Packard was the first vehicle manufacturer to offer an air conditioning system.

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  1. ↑ Klaus Jens: Lectures on building technology , (PDF file; 678 kB) ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at the Vienna University of Technology
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SURNAME Carrier, Willis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carrier, Willis Haviland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Angola (New York)
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1950