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==Career==
[[File:Willis Carrier Engineers Handbook.jpg|thumbnail|right|Engineers Hand-book, edited by Carrier while at the Buffalo Forge Co. in 1914]]
In [[Buffalo, New York]], on July 17, 1902, in response to an air quality problem experienced at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company of [[Brooklyn]], New York,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carlson |first1=Jen |title=Did You Know The First Air Conditioner Ever Was Installed In Brooklyn? |url=https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/did-you-know-the-first-air-conditioner-ever-was-installed-in-brooklyn |access-date=February 14, 2021 |publisher=Gothamist |date=July 12, 2012}}</ref> Willis Carrier submitted drawings for what became recognized as the world's first modern air conditioning system. It was so humid in summer that the paper grew and shrank, which resulted in poor quality images, because the color printing process involved running the same piece of paper up to four times, each with a different color ink.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marsh |first1=Allison |title=The Factory: A Social History of Work and Technology |date=2018 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=
The 1902 installation marked the birth of air conditioning because of the addition of humidity control, which led to the recognition by authorities in the field that A/C must perform four basic functions:
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In 1908, the Carrier Air Conditioner Company of America was created as a subsidiary of the [[Buffalo Forge Company]], with Willis Carrier as its vice president.<ref name=Mingus>{{cite book|
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On December 3, 1911, Carrier presented what is perhaps the most significant document ever prepared on air conditioning –
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