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Southwest Air Conditioning history
Southwest Air Conditioning company history timeline
He designed a machine that created ice using a compressor powered by a horse, water, wind-driven sails or steam and was granted a patent for it in 1851.
In 1902, a young engineer named Willis Carrier invented the first modern air conditioning system.
And in 1902, the very first air conditioner was invented (in Buffalo, New York, of all places). It’s no surprise that from that moment on, many homes and business took advantage of the newfound coolness air conditioners had to offer.
By 1903, he had completed the apparatus first visualized on that foggy Pittsburgh evening.
In 1903, the first airplane took flight.
At the St Louis World's Fair in 1904, organizers used mechanical refrigeration to cool the Missouri State Building.
In 1908, the first Ford Model-T was completed.
By 1915, Carrier had installed air conditioning in facilities producing everything from celluloid film to textiles, paper, flour and pharmaceuticals.
In May 1922 Willis Carrier unveiled his single most influential innovation, the centrifugal refrigeration machine (or “chiller”). Carrier’s chiller added a central compressor to reduce the unit’s size.
In 1924 the first installation of air conditioning at a department store was contracted by the J. L. Hudson Company in Detroit.
Building off refrigeration technology, Frigidaire introduced a new split-system room cooler to the marketplace in 1929 that was small enough for home use and shaped like a radio cabinet.
Into the 1930’s air conditioning had spread to offices, rail cars, churches and department stores.
Also in 1931, Frigidaire begins marketing year-round, central air conditioning systems for homes.
The units hit the market in 1932 but are not widely purchased due to high cost.
By 1947, 43,000 of these types of units are sold in the United States.
By the 1950’s Carrier’s air conditioning units were installed around the world in thousands of factories, offices, stores and homes, and in hospitals, hotels, skyscrapers, airplanes, mines and more than 10,000 ships at sea.
In fact, new air conditioners today use about 50 percent less energy than they did in 1990.
Since 1992, the Energy Department has issued conservation standards for manufacturers of residential central air conditioners and heat pumps.
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