Willis Carrier invented the air conditioner which keeps us cool. Do you know what the name of the first air conditioner was? Or where it was located? Willis Carrier came from a family who fixed things. Later in his life, he started his own air conditioner company. Willis Carrier’s life invention of the air conditioner keeps us cool when things get hot. Willis Carrier’s life included a lot of interesting things. Willis Carrier was born in 1876, Angola New York. As a kid, Carrier grew up on a farm. Willis came from a family who loved to repair things. Soon as he turned eleven years old, Carrier’s mother died. Everyday after school Willis had time to play, after he had to milk the cows, and to help around the farm. When Carrier finished high school, his father’s farm was not making enough money for him to go to college. He …show more content…
The first he made was the Chronicle Cotton Mills was the first to install in a hospital. More businesses came to Buffalo Forge for air conditioners. Companies that made cloth wanted Willis Carrier’s air conditioners to keep their cloth from shrinking. In 1907, many people wanted air conditioners installed in their home. So Buffalo Forge the company Willis worker for, created a new company. They made Willis Carrier vice president. Willis Carrier worked hard to build air conditioners. Sadly, his wife passed away in 1912 at that time. The company was a small part of the Buffalo Company, Willis took some workers and his ideas, and created a new company, and in 1915 Carrier created the Carrier Engineering Corporation. The Carrier company actually helped hockey players play their games by keeping the ice cool. It helped his business, and it helped him stay successful. The “centrifugal chiller” was a smaller, powerful, old machine. A man came up with a new idea invention to fan cool rooms. Carrier’s company helped the war world II by air conditioning factories that made food for the
Roberts was born in 1905 to a working class family in a Salford slum. He took a position as an engineering apprentice following his completion of school. Following his apprenticeship, he was unemployed for three years, utilizing this time to study languages. After becoming a teacher, Roberts wrote many award winning stories, plays, and scripts. Roberts became a farmer for sixteen years before beginning a career teaching in prisons. Roberts...
In this memoir, James gives the reader a view into his and his mother's past, and how truly similar they were. Throughout his life, he showed the reader that there were monumental events that impacted his life forever, even if he
George M. Pullman is best remembered for his contributions to the railroad industry through the invention of his Pullman Cars. The cars sold well and the railroad industry flourished with this new invention. Although the success attached to his name, not many people know the real truth behind this robber baron. His greed for money took him to extreme measures as his workers were seriously mistreated and put under strict
All fields of science affects the lives of many people, but the inventors are left out. Inventors make many lives more comfortable and convenient. George Edward Alcorn, Jr. was a not so well-known inventor, but he...
He was born Malcolm Little, to a Baptist lay speaker and a Grenada-born homemaker, Malcolm’s family had to be relocated several times because of constant death-threats toward his father. At the age of six, Earl, Malcolm’s father was killed in a streetcar accident that the family believed was the work of a white supremacist group called the Black Legion. At thirteen, Malcolm’s mother was institutionalized at a mental hospital, leaving her children to be separated into foster homes. Although an excellent student in junior high school, Malcolm dropped out of school when a white teacher told him that his dream of practicing law was “no realistic goal for a nigger”. After a youth of petty crime and a young adulthood of larger infractions, Malcolm found himself in jail for larceny and breaking and entering.
In 1917 after Louis returned home from Colored Waif’s House, he worked delivering coals and he often spent his nights in local dance clubs in New Orleans. He befriended J...
Langston Hughes was one of the most influential black poets of the twentieth century. He took part in the Harlem Renaissance and taught the world about black life and culture. Langston Hughes was born to James Hughes and Carrie Langston Hughes on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was young and he went to live with his grandmother (“Langston Hughes”). Of the many experiences that influenced young Hughes to write about black life, living with his grandmother, Mary Hughes, had the greatest impact on him. Hughes’s grandmother was the one that instilled in him a sense of black pride in the first place by telling him stories of his ancestors. Hughes’ grandmother had two husbands; the first was part of John Brown’s crew that attacked Harper’s Ferry. Her second husband, Hughes’ grandfather, was an abolitionist. Hearing the stories about his grandfather and his grandmother’s first husband made Hughes want to write about black lif...
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on the first day of February in the year 1902. His parents were separated when Hughes was very young; his father fled the country in order to escape the ever-present racism in the United States, according to Christine Hill, author of Langston Hughes, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He was raised by his maternal grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas into adolescence, who succeeded in instilling a sense of pride for his heritage in Hughes (Hill). Hughes’ ancestry greatly influenced his work, and inspired his social activism. Hughes’ great grandmothers were of African American descent, and his great grandfathers were white plantation owners in Kentucky. Hughes’ family tree is ridden with politically active members, many of which were related to abolition and expanding the rights of African-American people. His grandfather’s brother, John Mercer Langston, acted as the head of the Ohio Anti-Slavery ...
His first invention was a lubricator for steam engines, U.S. 129,843, which issued on July 12, 1872. The invention allowed machines to remain in motion to be oiled; his new oiling device revolutionized the industrial machine industry.
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Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1st, 1902, and is the second child to James Hughes and Carrie Langston. Not too long after his birth, his mother and father got divorced. Hughes’s childhood was rough. His mom and dad never came around to spend time with him. His mom was seeking employment and his father was trying to move away from all segregation. They moved around to many Midwest towns in Missouri and Illinois, until his parents divorced. His father moved to Cuba and then to Mexico to escape segregation that was still happening. Hughes went to live with his Grandma Mary in Lawrence, Kansas, until he was thirteen. She instilled in Hughes racial pride that would last his whole life. His mother continued moving from place to place and eventually remarried. After Hughes’s Grandmother died, his mother came and took him to live with her and her husband in Lincoln, Illinois. Hughes attended many different schools but most of his grammar school was attended in Lincoln. It was during the time that he lived in Lincoln that he started writing poetry. His teacher encouraged him and told him about two writers, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman. He enjoyed their poetry so much, he began writing poetry like them and later would write about how much they influenced his writing. They did not live there very long before finally mov...
The year 1887 was a busy one for Nikola Tesla, in the months of November and December alone he filed for seven patents for AC motors and power transmissions. These ideas caught the attention of George Westinghouse who bought them from him seeing their potential. One of his most important inventions Westinghouse bought was the transformer. With a transformer, an AC distribution system can allow a large amount of power to be transmitted at high voltages over long ...
Charles W. Carey, Jr. American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2002.
In the following years Ford learned how to work and service steam engines. In 1883 the Edison Illuminating Company hired him, he later earned the position of chief engineer. After two years of working non stop Henry Ford made the first Quadricycle that did not need to be pulled by a horse. That same year Ford meet his role model, invertor Thomas Edison, he encouraged Ford to ma...
Thomas Lanier Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911, he was the second of the Williams’ three children. By his own candid accounts, he described his family situation as being troubled, to put it lightly. His parent’s marriage was ordinarily tense, most likely as a result of his father’s alcoholism, physical intimidation and neglect. Thomas’s kindred troubles did not end with his parent’s unpleasantness, his beloved older sister, Rose, was institutionalized as a young woman and remained in care for the reminder of her life. He, himself suffered a mental breakdown, following his recuperation he moved to New Orleans and changed his name to Tennessee, this move invigorated his lifestyle and provided him with a new source of inspiration.