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  2. Frederick McKinley Jones - Wikipedia

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    U.S. patent 2,696,086 was issued on December 7, 1954 – Method and means for air conditioning. U.S. patent 2,780,923 was issued on February 12, 1957 – Method and means for preserving perishable foodstuffs in transit. U.S. patent 2,850,001 was issued on September 2, 1958 – Control device for internal combustion engine.

  3. Willis Carrier - Wikipedia

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    cleanse the air; After several more years of refinement and field testing, on January 2, 1906, Carrier was granted U.S. patent 808,897 for an Apparatus for Treating Air, the world's first spray-type air conditioning equipment. It was designed to humidify or dehumidify air, heating water for the first function and cooling it for the second.

  4. Air conditioning - Wikipedia

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    Innovations in the latter half of the 20th century allowed more ubiquitous air conditioner use. In 1945, Robert Sherman of Lynn, Massachusetts, invented a portable, in-window air conditioner that cooled, heated, humidified, dehumidified, and filtered the air. [37] The first inverter air conditioners were released in 1980–1981. [38] [39]

  5. Thermo King - Wikipedia

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    Jones designed a portable air-cooling unit for trucks carrying perishable food, [3] for which they had obtained a patent on July 12, 1940, [4] subsequent to a challenge to invent a refrigerated truck over a golf game by associates of Numero's, Werner Transportation Co.'s President Harry Werner, and United States Air Conditioning Co.'s President ...

  6. Friedrich Air Conditioning - Wikipedia

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    Portable/Power Miser: Introduced in 1965 and produced until the early 1990s, this was the first room air conditioner advertised as a portable unit by Friedrich. In 1974, the name Power Miser appeared along with a major engineering change, which saw a less efficient and light duty Tecumseh AH/AJ reciprocating compressor replace the high ...

  7. Samuel Cleland Davidson - Wikipedia

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    Inventor of air conditioning and founder of the Sirocco Engineering Works in Belfast Sir Samuel Cleland Davidson , KBE (18 November 1846 – 18 August 1921) was a British inventor and engineer. Through his career in the tea import business he invented and patented a number of industrial machines and developed the earliest air conditioning systems.