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.
The first air brake invented by George Westinghouse in 1869 revolutionized the railroad industry, making braking a safer venture and thus permitting trains to travel at higher speeds. Westinghouse earned 361 patents. 2  Of those 103 patents related to the air brake. 3  One of George's 361 patents is a citywide telephone switching system, created long before widespread use by the telephone companies.