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Willis Carrier: The Father of the Air Conditioner. The first modern air conditioner was invented in 1902 by Willis Haviland Carrier, a skilled engineer who began experimenting with the laws of humidity control to solve an application problem at a printing plant in Brooklyn, NY.
Printer Friendly Version >>>. Air conditioning was born in 1902 when Willis Carrier, a mechanical engineer, developed and installed the first system in a publishing company in Brooklyn, New York. The Carrier Engineering Corporation was formed in 1915 to manufacture and sell his new technology.