PRESENTATION
Carrier’s heritage:
the invention that
changed the world
On July 17, 1902, Willis Haviland Carrier
designs the world’s first air conditioning system.
The invention is originally devised to solve a problem
for a customer at a printing plant in New York City.
Willis H. Carrier’s invention is a true breakthrough, so
innovative that it has gone on to launch a company
and create an entire industry essential to global
productivity and personal comfort.
1911
Willis Carrier writes a “Rational Psychometric Formulae” for the calculation
of the wet temperature that quickly becomes the predecessor of the charts
used today. He becomes internationally recognised.
1915
Carrier Engineering Corporation is incorporated with Willis Carrier
as president with the intention, despite an economic slump and world war,
of building a brand-new industry.
1926
Carrier introduces the first home air conditioner.
1949
Carrier announces that New York City’s four biggest and most modern
postwar skyscrapers would soon be air conditioned by Carrier’s Conduit
Weathermaster system.
1979
The acquisition of Carrier by United Technologies reshapes the global market
for heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
1998
Willis Carrier is named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People
of the Century”, 48 years after his death.
Legacy of innovation
Over time, Carrier has been recognised as the world’s leader in
high-technology heating, air conditioning and refrigeration
solutions. The company continues to innovate in order to offer
market-leading products and solutions.
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