Although HVAC seems like a modern-day luxury – the truth is that it’s been around for quite some time. In this article, we’ll briefly discuss the history of HVAC and how it came about.
In the mid 1800’s, Dr John Gorrie came up with idea of cooling cities during hot months. This idea led to him designing his own system which managed humidity by utilising cooling coils.
After securing his patent, he began perfecting his plan and design for an automatic humidity and temperature-controlled system.
The idea officially launched 50 years later in 1904 at the St. Louis World Fair.
Here, a refrigeration system was used to cool the Missouri State Building for the first time and made it the first public building to be cooled.
Eventually this led to public theatres being designed with cooling and heating systems.
In 1932, commercial HVAC was welcomed with open arms, however, residential HVAC was still too expensive for the average household to afford.
Together H.H Schultz and J.Q. Sherman designed and created an HVAC unit that could fit on a windowsill. This eventually led to the majority of homes in the 1960’s having some type of residential HVAC system installed.
Today’s HVAC systems are completely silent and hidden from sight and are now built into the framing of buildings and homes.
Heating and cooling of buildings has now become an everyday must and almost every office building has an HVAC system.
Air Options designs and creates custom HVAC systems that are designed and assembled to meet standardized requirements in various sectors.
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