Willis Carrier, a 25-year-old experimental engineer, created a primitive cooling system to reduce humidity around the printer. He used an industrial fan to blow air over steam coils filled with ...

A young engineer called Willis Carrier figured out that circulating air over coils that were chilled by compressed ammonia maintained the humidity at a constant 55%. Buffalo Forge was soon selling ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Rational Psychrometric Formulae, the cornerstone of all fundamental calculations in the air conditioning industry, developed by inventor Dr. Willis Carrier, ...

For that, today’s hot and sweaty masses have the engineer Willis Carrier to thank. Though people have attempted to outsmart the weather for centuries, the mechanical air conditioner did not ...

To fix the problem, they needed a humidity-control system. The challenge fell to a young engineer named Willis Carrier. He devised a system to circulate air over coils that were cooled by ...

On July 17, 1902, Willis Haviland Carrier finished drawing up plans for what is today considered the first modern air conditioning system. It was installed in a printing business in Brooklyn in ...

After several months of negotiations between the city and Dr. Willis Carrier, the “father of air-conditioning,” Carrier Corporation purchased the mammoth former H.H. Franklin Manufacturing ...

Tabreed is driving the UAE’s transition to sustainable cooling through innovative district cooling solutions that cut energy ...

The company demolished the large manufacturing buildings on its sprawling campus off Carrier Circle in 2011 at a cost of $14 million. Willis Carrier, who invented modern air conditioning ...

Willis Carrier and Irvine Lyle. The scientists and their core team begged, borrowed, and made stock sales to friends and neighbors. Carrier even enlisted his dentist for cash to get Carrier ...

During that first record-breaking day in 1901—one summer before Willis Carrier invented air conditioning and revolutionized the way we keep cool in the modern world—an enterprising Boston ...

In one of his more meteorological moments, science-fiction author Robert Heinlein cheekily explained the difference between climate and weather: “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you ...