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.
(1602-86). German physicist, engineer, and natural philosopher Otto von Guericke invented the first air pump and used it to study the phenomenon of vacuum and the role of air in combustion and respiration.