Carrier’s Invention of Centrifugal Chillers: History and Evolution

Travel through time to see how Willis Carrier’s dream of bringing ‘comfort cooling’ to the world would dramatically change the way we live, work, and play today.
While Willis Carrier had invented the science of air conditioning in the early 1900s, it was his introduction of centrifugal technology 20 years later which represented a quantum leap to safely bring refrigeration and air conditioning technology to buildings around the globe. Carrier centrifugal chillers are now found in locations once thought uninhabitable from deserts to the tropics, any hot and humid location, high rise office and apartment buildings, hotels, hospitals, airports, subway stations, sporting venues, museums, malls, cruise lines and more.
Carrier centrifugal chillers provide controlled environments to manufacture products which impact almost every facet of our modern lives…from medicines and advanced materials, plastics, chemicals and textiles, to automotive, mining, food processing and storage, to semi-conductor chips and robotics, to name a few.
This is the remarkable story about the genius of Willis Carrier, the introduction and evolution of Carrier centrifugal chiller technology and its impact on our daily lives.
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