Heating, Cooling & Refrigeration · Recorded milestone
Centrifugal chiller
Recorded year1922
Willis Carrier's centrifugal chiller cools whole buildings safely; in 1925 it makes New York's Rivoli Theatre a summer escape.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.