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Carrier, Willis Haviland
| (1876-1950), ASME member, U.S. industrialist and founder of Carrier Corporation, formulated the basic theories of air conditioning that led to his invention of many firsts in the air conditioning field, starting with the first system to control temperature and humidity in 1902. In 1911, his seminal paper on a rational psychrometric formulae (published by ASME) established the basic engineering standards for air conditioning. He formed the Carrier Engineering Corporation in 1915. He was born Nov. 26, 1876, Angola, New York, and Oct. 7, 1950, New York City. |
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