How Air Conditioning Changed the World

by Stacy Smith

Thanks to Willis Haviland Carrier, who invented the world’s first air conditioner back in the early 1900s to modulate the temperature inside a printing house, modern man can endure the intense heat of an entire summer without resorting to hanging wet clothes in doorways or pumping water through aqueducts like his ancestors did. If you are interested in knowing more such interesting facts about the progression of air conditioning through the years and how it changed the world in more ways than one, don’t forget to take a look at the stunning, new infographic from Sovereign!

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