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  2. 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.

  3. List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Morse: 1791 Telegraph [12] 1975 Wilbur Wright: 1867 Airplane [13] 1975 William D. Coolidge: 1873 X-ray tube [14] 1975 Guglielmo Marconi * 1874 Radio [15] 1976 Charles Martin Hall: 1863 Aluminum production process [16] 1976 Charles Goodyear: 1800 Vulcanization of rubber [17] 1976 Cyrus McCormick: 1809 Mechanical reaper [15] 1976 Enrico ...

  4. Samuel Morse - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

  5. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    It would be independently invented by Joseph Henry the following year. Faraday is credited with inventing the first electric generator called the Faraday disk. 1834: Moritz von Jacobi invents the first practical electric motor. 1835: Joseph Henry invents the electromechanical relay. 1837: Samuel Morse invents Morse code.

  6. 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.

  7. 5 ways people stayed cool before air conditioning was invented

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    However, before air conditioning existed, people had to be creative when trying to stay comfortable in sweltering conditions. Here are five different ways people across the United States beat the ...

  8. List of people considered father or mother of a field - Wikipedia

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    Invented the first successful powered fixed-wing aircraft, upon which further aircraft designs, methods of flight, and aircraft control systems were based. Air conditioning: Willis Carrier [105] Battery: Alessandro Volta [106] Invented the first electrical battery, the Voltaic pile. Canning: Nicolas Appert: Chronograph: George Graham [36] [107]

  9. Samuel Finley Brown Morse - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Finley Brown Morse was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Clara Rebecca (Boit) and George Washington Morse, a soldier in the American Civil War and later a lawyer in Massachusetts. [1] Morse's distant cousin, Samuel Morse was the inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code. Morse attended Andover, like his father, and then Yale.