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The factory system developed in the late eighteenth century, chiefly due to the advances being made in the textile industry. With inventions such as the flying shuttle, the spinning jenny, and many others, the making of cloth became much faster, and could be done on a much wider scale .
Carrier built his first air conditioner in July 1902ânot to cool people, but to keep paper cool and dry at the Sackett-Wilhelms printing plant in Brooklyn. Soon Carrier's invention was cooling movie theaters, department stores and even, by 1929, the US Congress.