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From the time Willis Haviland Carrier
invented the basics of modern air conditioning in 1902, Carrier has
been the world leader in the manufacture and sale of heating,
ventilating, air conditioning, hvac systems and products.
Headquartered in Farmington,
Connecticut USA, with over 39,000 employees in over 173 countries,
Carrier combines its global HVAC and refrigeration expertise with the
responsiveness of its local operations to lead nearly every geographic
market.
The history of air conditioning is a
history of Carrier, and there’s more behind the comfort we take for
granted on a sweltering summer day than you might think.
When Willis Carrier
designed his first air conditioning system in 1902, his customer was a
frustrated Brooklyn, N.Y. printer who couldn’t print a decent color
image because changes in heat and humidity kept changing the paper’s
dimensions and misaligning the colored inks.
For nearly two decades, Carrier’s
invention that allowed us to scientifically control
the temperature and humidity of our indoor environment was meant for
the comfort of machines or industrial processes rather than people. It
wasn’t until 1906 that Carrier, then employed by the Buffalo Forge
Company, patented his first device — "An Apparatus for Treating
Air."
Southern U.S. textile mills were among
the first users of Carrier’s new system. A lack of moisture in the
air of the Chronicle Cotton Mill in Belmont, N.C. created excess
static electricity that made cotton fibers become fuzzy and hard to
weave. Carrier’s system raised and stabilized humidity levels to
eliminate the "fuzzies." It conditioned the
fibers. The first overseas sale of a Carrier system was made to a silk
mill in Yokohama, Japan in 1907
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