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Western Culture
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The Top
100 Heroes of Western Culture
These individuals have most contributed to replacing
ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization,
disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty
with abundance, and despair with happiness.
#72: Willis Haviland Carrier (1876-1950)
Willis Haviland Carrier (1876-1950) invented the first practical
air conditioning systems for commercial and residential use.
Carrier’s achievement allowed vital industries, such as processed
meats, medicine capsules, printing, textiles and film, to thrive
with the ability to control temperature and humidity levels during
and after production.
More importantly, his contribution allows hundreds of millions of
people today around the world to live in comfort by being free
from unhealthy and demoralizing heat and humidity.
Further, substantial portions of the Earth, which would otherwise
be mostly unpopulated by humans because of the climate, can flourish
with civilization thanks to Carrier’s invention.
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