W. H. Carrier
1947 Bio Note. [1]
Dr. CARRIER is Chairman of the Board of Carrier Corporation, and founded and was president of the Carrier Engineering Corporation which preceded it. He attended district schools in Erie County, New York, Buffalo Central High School, and graduated from Cornell University in 1901 where he received an M.E. He joined the Buffalo Forge Company in 1901 as a research engineer, becoming chief engineer in 1906.
He founded Carrier Engineering Corporation in 1915 and his many inventions have been the basis of the modern air-conditioning industry. He was awarded the John Scott Medal for his inventions of processes and apparatus for air conditioning and refrigeration, the F. Paul Anderson Gold Medal for distinguished scientific achievements in the same field, the 1934 Medal of the A.S.M.E., and the Brown Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1941. He received the honorary Doctor of Engineering at Lehigh University in 1935 and the D.Sc. at Alfred University in 1942.
He was elected an honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1940. Dr. Carrier is a Trustee of Cornell University.
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- ↑ 1947 IMechE Proceedings