We are fine inside. Just the right temperature because we’re air-conditioned, an invention that’s a hundred years old. The inventor? You still see his name on many air conditioning units.
Carrier. Willis Haviland Carrier, an engineer who along with 6 other colleagues had been fired from the Buffalo Forge Company. It was the beginning of the 14-18 war and the firm did not believe that Carrier’s invention was going to take off.
However, Carrier and his 6 comrades believed in it hard as iron.
They put their savings together of $32,600 and founded the Carrier Engineering Corporation. Today, the company whose world headquarters is in Florida rolls with a turnover of around 21 billion. Carriers are everywhere on the planet.
In homes, large commercial spaces, at cooling sites for food and put in. Nearly 60,000 employees worldwide.
THE WORLD
But yes, the Buffalo Forge Company was right. The world took a long time to believe in air conditioning. The First World War, the stock market crash of the 1930s and the Second World War were serious pitfalls, but by the end of the 1940s it was realized that air conditioning was more than a luxury, but a matter of comfort. and this time the flight was spectacular.
By the way, the senior vice-president and director of human resources at Carrier is called Nadia Villeneuve, a graduate of the University of Quebec and also of the HEC de Montréal.
Inventor Willis Haviland Carrier died in New York in 1950 and the story does not say whether when he was fired in Buffalo he was told to make air.
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