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"While President Obama recently said, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Well, air conditioning just turned 110 years old this year. Imagine even a day without it here in sweltering Alabama." ... "Carrier continued to improve the cooling process over time, and in 1915, he and six other engineers formed the Carrier Engineering Corporation with starting capital of $32,600. Today Carrier is a $12.5 billion company, employing 43,000 employees and serves customers in 170 countries." ... "That’s what great entrepreneurs do: Make people’s lives better. And most of the time they...

Ehudgins@atlassociety.org It's a typical 3-H Washington, D.C. summer: hazy, hot and humid. And with small variations, the rest of the country sweats through this same season. But I sit typing in cool comfort, looking out a window into the park at the statue of an admiral who might want to yield his pedestal for a likeness of Willis Haviland Carrier. Who was Carrier and why does he deserve our esteem? He's the American who invented and commercialized the modern air conditioner. Carrier was born in 1876 and grew on the cold shores of Lake Erie in Upstate New York. He...