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Carrier Global
American air conditioning company
Carrier Global Corporation is an American multinationalheating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, and fire and security equipment corporation based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Carrier was founded in as an independent company manufacturing and distributing HVAC systems, and has since expanded to include manufacturing commercial refrigeration and food service equipment, and fire and security technologies.
As of , it was a $ billion company with over 52, employees serving customers in countries on six continents.[2][3]
Carrier was acquired by United Technologies in , but it was spun off as an independent company 41 years later in , as was the Otis Elevator Company.[4][5]
History
[edit]Willis Carrier, a mechanical engineer working for Buffalo Forge, is credited with inventing modern air conditioning in July [6]
In , the Carrier Air Conditioner Compa
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Willis Carrier
- Birthdate
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- Death date
- /10/07
- Fields of study
- Air conditioning, Refridgeration
Biography
Willis Carrier was born in in western New York to Duane and Elizabeth Haviland Carrier. He was an only child who spent a great deal of time tinkering with mechanical devices. His interest in engineering led him to a state scholarship at Cornell University, where he met his first wife, Claire Seymour. After graduating from Cornell with a master's degree in electrical engineering in , Carrier took a job at the Buffalo Forge Company, where he set up a research laboratory and experimented with the industrial applications of electricity.
At the turn of the century, there was already an understanding of how to cool, circulate, and moisten air, but Carrier was the first to reduce air humidity and hold moisture content to specified levels. He defined air conditioning as a process that would clean air while controlling temperature, humidity, air circulation, and vent
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Willis Carrier
American uppfinnare (–)
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Born | Willis Haviland Carrier ()November 26, Angola, New York, U.S. |
Died | October 7, () (aged73) New York City, U.S. |
Resting place | Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York |
Nationality | American |
Almamater | Cornell University (M.E.) |
Occupation | Engineer |
Knownfor | Inventing modern air conditioning |
Spouses | Edith Claire Seymour (m.; died)Jennie Tifft Martin (m.; died)Elizabeth marsch Wise (m.) |
Children | 3 |
Awards | ASME Medal () Frank P. Brown Medal () |
Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, – October 7, ) was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning. Carrier invented the first electrical air conditioning enhet in In , he founded Carrier Corporation, a company specializing in the manufacture and distribution of heatin