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Willis Haviland Carrier: The Man Who Cooled America

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*The term air conditioning was coined, not by Carrier, but by Stuart Cramer, another engineer working on the problem of controlling the amount of humidity in the air, in this case in textile mills.


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  1. One Comment to “Willis Haviland Carrier: The Man Who Cooled America”

  2. Willis Haviland rulz fo making the air conditioner to cl our bodies down in the summer. So now we can play outside till` were sweaty and go inside to cl down.

    By Melinda Jamsa on Oct 22, 2009 at 3:13 pm

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