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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.
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.
Lewis Howard Latimer (September 4, 1648 – December 11, 1728) was an American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for electric light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars.
American inventor Samuel Morse developed telegraphy and the Morse code. 1844: Woolrich Generator, the earliest electrical generator used in an industrial process. [3] 1845: German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff developed the two laws now known as Kirchhoff's Circuit laws. 1850: Belgian engineer Floris Nollet invented (and patented) a practical AC ...
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 ...
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 ...
John B. Gorrie (October 3, 1803 – June 29, 1855) was a Nevisian-born American physician and scientist, credited as the inventor of mechanical refrigeration. [1] [2]Born on the Island of Nevis in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies to Scottish parents on October 3, 1803, he spent his childhood in South Carolina.
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.