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  • NAME: Willis Carrier
  • OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur, Inventor
  • BIRTH DATE: November 26, 1876
  • DEATH DATE: October 07, 1950
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Angola, New York
  • PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
  • Full Name: Willis Haviland Carrier

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Willis Carrier designed the first system to control temperature and humidity in 1902.


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Willis Carrier designed the first system to control temperature and humidity in 1902. His “Rational Psychrometric Formulae,” introduced in 1911, initiated scientific air-conditioning design. In 1915 he cofounded the Carrier Engineering Company, which became the world's largest manufacturer of air-conditioning equipment. Carrier was purchased by United Technologies Corporation in 1979.

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