Biography of w h carrier

It is evening, near freezing, and fog blankets the Pittsburgh railroad station. A young industrial engineer walks the platform, his brain roiling with a problem that has obsessed him for months. He has gone to sleep with it, awakened to it, and brooded over it while commuting to and from work.

Now, while waiting at the station, he paces and paces…and then it strikes–the Archimedean lightning bolt of inspiration.

Biography of w h carrier air conditioning

The answer is literally all around him! It is the fog itself!

The solitary thinker’s name: Willis Haviland Carrier. Few other inventors have had such an impact on American life and yet remained so little-known. For on that foggy night in 1902, Carrier hit upon the theory that became the basis for modern air-conditioning technology–and air conditioning, in a sense, has become the sine qua non of modern American life.

The huge postwar population shift from the Northeast and Midwest to the Sunbelt would scarcely have been possible without air conditio