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