Assignment 5

Willis Haviland Carrier was an American engineer and inventor. He was born in Angola, New York on November 26, 1876. In 1895 he went to Cornell University on a scholarship and graduated in 1901 with a degree in mechanical engineering. While working for the Buffalo Forge Company which manufactured heaters and air exhaust systems he devised a method to control heat and humidity for one of his clients, the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing and Publishing Company. The company’s need to control the heat and humidity in their building as it was having an effect on the paper and ink. Willis Carrier designed the first air conditioner for them in 1902. He received a patent for his 'Apparatus for Treating Air' in 1906. Carrier improved on his design in 1921 and again in 1928 when he created the first residential air conditioner for private homes called the 'Weathermaker.'

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