Carrier
Corporation, a
subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation,
is the world's largest manufacturer of air conditioning, heating, and
refrigeration equipment for commercial, residential, and transportation
applications.
Willis
Carrier designed his first air conditioning system in 1902 to aid a
printer who couldn't produce a quality color image because changes in
heat and humidity kept changing the paper's dimensions and misaligning
the colored inks. In 1915, Carrier and six friends formed the Carrier
Engineering Company — a company whose only product was a guarantee
to achieve the temperature and humidity their commercial customers required.
For nearly 20 years, Carrier's invention continued to be used only in
industrial applications.
Comfort
cooling for people made its debut in 1924 at a department store in Hudson,
Mich. Next, theaters began to provide environmental comfort for their
customers. In the late 1920s, small businesses started to use the systems.
In 1928, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the installation
of a Carrier air conditioning system, and less than a year later, the
US Senate ratified their contract for a Carrier system, too. It took
only a small step in 1928 to develop a residential "Weathermaker"
that heated, cooled, humidified, cleaned, and circulated air in homes.
Soon after the Carrier display at the 1939 New York World's Fair, travel
by bus, train, and airplane became comfortable with the development
of air conditioning systems from Carrier. It didn't matter if you were
sitting at home, working, traveling, or being entertained, Carrier cooling
systems continued to be the definitive answer to indoor comfort.
Commercial
rooftoop units began cooling entire skyscrapers in 1950. Also in 1950,
Carrier introduced portable room air conditioning units, which made
millions more comfortable. In 1965, indoor home comfort went beyond
cooling as the first line of residential heating products was sold under
the Carrier brand name. Heat pumps, single units that deliver energy-saving
heating and cooling solutions, became a hero during the oil crisis of
1973. (Carrier first developed this concept in 1932.) In 1989, Carrier
developed variable capacity, multi-speed heating and cooling systems,
making total indoor comfort no longer just an "on" or "off"
decision.
Such
innovations paved the way for Carrier to demonstrate its technological
leadership throughout the history of the HVAC industry and into the
21st century with the newest industry innovations, like the environmentally
sound Puron® refrigerant, ComfortHeat™ technology that manages
the comfort of heat pump operation, and IdealHumidity™ systems
that control temperature and humidity together.
Now
headquartered in Farmington, Conn., Carrier manufactures its products
in 108 plants spread across six continents. The corporation has a worldwide
network of distributors and dealers who sell, install, and service Carrier
products in 171 countries. The Carrier name is directly responsible
for providing comfortable, reliable, and consistent indoor comfort to
millions of people. In addition to the familiar residential and commercial
applications, Carrier climate control systems protect the Sistine Chapel,
the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt, and historic documents at
the Library of Congress. From the Mount Vernon home of George Washington,
to universities, opera houses, subway systems, and airports around the
world, Carrier is everywhere.
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