Willis Carrier installed the first air conditioner to combat humidity inside a Brooklyn, New York printing company in 1902. Carrier was one-year out of college making $10 per week as a salaried employee at the Buffalo Forge Company when he developed his "apparatus for treating air." His invention was granted a patent in 1906, the first of several patents awarded to Willis Carrier.
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