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Carrier Corporation kicks off 100th anniversary, Willis H.
Carrier, the Inventor of Modern Air Conditioning
On July 17, 1902, a young engineer in Buffalo, N.Y, the genius
of Willis Haviland Carrier gave birth to modern air conditioning
and forever changed the way we live, work and play. He enabled
incredible improvements to health care, manufacturing processes,
research, building capacities, food preservation, art and
historical conservation, general productivity, indoor comfort
and much more. He truly created a century of possibilities
Willis H. Carrier not only provided the revolutionary hardware
that launched Carrier Corporation, he provided the spirit
of innovation, the determination to solve problems, the drive
to satisfy customers and the hope to improve our world. One
hundred years later, these same attributes resonate in the
42,000 dedicated Carrier associates that span the globe
From 1902, when Willis H. Carrier produced one unit, to today
when we ship one unit every four seconds, our company has
come a long way by any measure. And just as the total impact
of Carrier's technology was first unimaginable in 1902, Carrier
Corporation confident that we will mark even greater achievements
to improved indoor comfort and refrigeration over our next
100 years.
"Despite the immense impact of air conditioning on humankind,
Willis Carrier is still surprisingly unknown," said Geraud
Darnis, president, Carrier Corporation. "We think he
should rightfully be viewed by historians and the public as
one of the world's greatest inventors. As humble and determined
man, he truly changed the way we work and live."
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