Carrier’s Invention of Modern Air Conditioning Celebrates 110 Years of Making the World a Cool Place to Live, Work and Play
WARRINGTON, United Kingdom, July 17, 2012What started as an invention to control humidity in a New York printing plant in 1902 has forever changed the way people around the world live, work and play. July 17thmarks the 110thanniversary of the invention of modern air conditioning by Dr. Willis H. Carrier, inventor and founder of Carrier, the world’s leader in high technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions and a part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). On July 17, 1902, Carrier, a young research engineer just a year