About Willis Carrier

BIOGRAPHY

• Born November 26, 1876, in Angola, N.Y.
• Received engineering degree from Cornell University in 1901
• Started working at Buffalo Forge Company in 1901
• Designed the world’s first modern air conditioning system in 1902
• Developed Rational Psychrometric Formulae in 1911
• Founded Carrier Engineering Corporation in 1915
• Awarded honorary doctorates from Lehigh University (1935) and Alfred University (1942)
• Died October 7, 1950, in New York, N.Y.
• Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1985
• Named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century” in 1998