December 21, 2024

This week marks the 100 year aniversary of the invention of one of life’s best conveniences, the air conditioner (or originally called “Apparatus for Treating Air”). It was invented by a young man named Willis Haviland Carrier one year after graduating from Cornell.

Sources:
100 Years Of Playing It Cool – CBS
A Hundred Years of Hummmmmm – CNN
History of Air Conditioning
Invent Now Hall of Fame