Timeline...

1965 The Houston Astrodome is equipped with the world's largest "room air conditioners." Four Carrier centrifugal chillers supplied 6,600 tons of cooling capacity to the dome's 41 million cubic feet of unbroken space.
1974 Carrier Corporation formed BDP Company named for Carrier's Bryant, Day & Night and Payne brands of heating and cooling equipment.
1980 Carrier becomes part of United Technologies Corporation.
1989 Holland America Line's luxurious S.S. Rotterdam is air conditioned by Carrier. Carrier centrifugal chillers also cool the Queen Elizabeth 2 and half a dozen of the 10 largest cruise ships afloat.
1994 Soon after Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel were restored to their original brilliance, Carrier designed, built and donated an air conditioning system to clean the chapel's air and give the frescoes the stable temperature and humidity they demand.
1995 Carrier eliminates all ozone-depleting CFC refrigerants from its product line — a year ahead of federal and United Nations mandates.
1996 Scoring a triple whammy for the environment, Carrier introduces a compact, turbine assisted centrifugal chiller, the Evergreen, that uses chlorine-free HFC 134a refrigerant while achieving energy efficiency levels once available only with CFC and HCFC refrigerants.
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