Air conditioning
Aire acondicionado
- Date
- 1902 · confidence high
- Place
- Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Credited to
- Willis Carrier (Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing, 1902); Stuart Cramer (coined the term, 1906)
- People
- 👤 Stuart Cramer👤 Willis Haviland Carrier1876–1950
- Field
- Tools
What it is
System that controls the temperature and humidity of air through mechanical refrigeration. Born for a printing works, it ended up redefining where humanity lives.
What it led to
- Growth of the Sun Belt, Singapore and Gulf cities
- Air-conditioned cinemas and sealed offices
- Electricity consumption and summer peak demand
Built on
- Heat pump (Kelvin's proposal)1852
- Mechanical vapour-compression refrigeration1834-1856
- Mechanical refrigeration (Perkins, Linde)
- Electric fan
- Psychrometry
Made possible
- Sealed building with curtain wall
- Cleanroom
- Data centre