Syracuse, New York USA needed jobs, and Carrier Corporation needed a home base to meet the escalating worldwide demand for air conditioning. The city offered Carrier a vacant plant and the young company moved in in 1937. Ten years later, the Syracuse TR-1 plant became home and produced most of the 55,500 centrifugal units built since 1922. Some of these units have been in service for more than 50 years.

Inside this plant, generation after generation of skilled machinists have welded cool air from solid steel and miles of piping and other materiel. Far beyond the 13-acre factory, the world has been changing for the better with each air conditioning installation. Today, the history-making chiller also is built in France, South Korea, China and Australia. But wherever it's built, the value of Willis Carrier's "refrigeration machine" will continue to be measured by its many good deeds.

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