However, easy-to-use tools while important, are not the only reasons for the popularity of crisis mapping. This âconsumerizationâ of technology is now enabling mapping to shift from an EOC support function to a skill of the modern emergency manager.
In 1902, the first modern electrical air conditioning unit was invented by Willis Carrier in Buffalo, New York. After graduating from Cornell University, Carrier found a job at the Buffalo Forge Company.
In this artist's conceptualization, Willis Carrier starts the engine that will drive the world's first modern air-conditioning system, installed in the summer of 1902 at the Sackett & Wilhelms printing plant in Brooklyn, New York.