#willis carrier

[wtf-fun-factss]

100 years ago, there was very little indoor entertainment in summer. Click to read the full fact.

[machetelanding]

[whattolearntoday]

A bit of December 3rd history...

1586 - Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Columbia

1736 - Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newton’s theory that the Earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere

1775 - 1st official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard USS Alfred

1854 - Eureka Stockade: in what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Victoria are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licenses

1868 - 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial

1911 - Willis Carrier presents his influential “Rational Psychrometic Formulae” on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

1984 - “Do They Know It’s Christmas” single by Band Aid is released in the UK (pictured)

1989 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George HW Bush declare the Cold War over

2018 - 7 yr old Ryan of Ryan Toysreview is the years highest paid Youtube star earning $22 million

[mindblowingfactz]

This is Willis Carrier, the man who invented the air conditioner. Let's take a moment to thank him.

[jamieroxx]

Birthday Remembrances. Today, Nov 26, 1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer, invented air conditioning (d. 1950) was born. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Carrier)

[youmakeyourreality]

Kudos to Mr. Willis Carrier for giving us air conditioning! OMG! 🙌🏽

[clio-muse-of-history]

July 21

In 1902, in Buffalo, New York, Willis Carrier submitted drawings for the first air conditioner. Why this anniversary is not a national holiday is a mystery.

[scholarofgloom]