INVENTOR

Willis Carrier

1876 - 1950

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Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950) was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning. Carrier invented the first electrical air conditioning unit in 1902. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willis Carrier has received more than 1,677,660 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Willis Carrier is the 48th most popular inventor (up from 49th in 2019), the 412th most popular biography from United States (up from 455th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Inventor.

Willis Carrier is most famous for inventing the modern air conditioner.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Willis Carrier ranks 48 out of 426. Before him are Ruth Handler, Jimmy Wales, Konrad Zuse, Wilhelm Maybach, John Herschel, and Hans Lippershey. After him are Herman Hollerith, Karl Drais, William G. Morgan, Douglas Engelbart, James Naismith, and Emile Berliner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Willis Carrier ranks 14. Before him are Wilhelm Pieck, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Constantin Brâncuși, Pablo Casals, Alexander I of Serbia, and Manuel de Falla. After him are Adolf Windaus, 13th Dalai Lama, Otto Diels, Elsa Einstein, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Dragutin Dimitrijević. Among people deceased in 1950, Willis Carrier ranks 9. Before him are Gustaf V of Sweden, Joseph Schumpeter, Johannes V. Jensen, Vaslav Nijinsky, Albert Lebrun, and Heinrich Mann. After him are Marcel Mauss, Norman Haworth, Vallabhbhai Patel, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Karl Renner, and Léon Blum.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Willis Carrier ranks 412 out of 20,380. Before him are Philip Roth (1933), Billie Holiday (1915), Frank Herbert (1920), Prince (1958), Jack Ruby (1911), and Paul Tibbets (1915). After him are Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Jon Brower Minnoch (1941), Charles Francis Richter (1900), Herman Hollerith (1860), Melvin Calvin (1911), and Jesse James (1847).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Willis Carrier ranks 11. Before him are Steve Wozniak (1950), Eli Whitney (1765), George Westinghouse (1846), Robert Fulton (1765), Ruth Handler (1916), and Jimmy Wales (1966). After him are Herman Hollerith (1860), William G. Morgan (1870), Douglas Engelbart (1925), Charles Goodyear (1800), Isaac Singer (1811), and John Browning (1855).

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