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.
(URL: www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/151.html) The Westinghouse Air Brake Company Originally organized in 1869 to manufacture the air brakes invented by George Westinghouse.The works and the yard together occupied approximately thirty acres. 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.