Carrier
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History
The year: 1902. The dilemma: The Sackett-Wilhelm printing plant in Brooklyn couldn’t print a decent color image because changes in temperature and humidity kept altering paper dimensions and misaligning the colored inks. Enter Willis Carrier, who would invent the first modern mechanical air conditioner and become the father of air conditioning. Twelve years later, Carrier took his modern marvel to the home and installed the first residential application of air conditioning in the Charles Gates mansion in Minneapolis.
Willis Carrier soon made his mark on other facets of everyday living. In 1924, J. L. Hudson’s in Detroit prevented its customers from fainting in the heat by becoming the first air-conditioned department store. In the summer of 1925, people came in droves to enjoy the latest motion pictures in Los Angeles’ Grauman’s Theatre and New York’s Rivoli Theatre. That same year, thousands flocked to New York’s Madison Square Garden to take in the first indoor professional hockey game.
Carrier also initiated innovations in many other areas: ice cream machines, beverage coolers, containers for fruit shipping, refrigeration trucks, and even training environments for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Fast forward to the 1990s when environmental concerns took center stage. Carrier again led the way. With the 1994 proclamation of a worldwide CFC phase-out, and given a full 10-year warning in most markets, Carrier would become the first manufacturer to develop home comfort products using Puron®, the chlorine-free replacement for R-22 refrigerant — six years before the next competitor. Puron was the first environmentally sound refrigerant available for homes that won’t deplete the ozone layer. As other manufacturers scrambled to switch over to chlorine-free refrigerants, Carrier meticulously built a full line of reliable Puron-based products to fulfill every possible application.
With Carrier, innovations will keep coming. Carrier is dedicated to continuing to make history. |
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