Warren Seymour Johnson
American college professor
Warren Seymour Johnson (November 6, 1847 – December 5, 1911) was an American college professor who, frustrated by his inability to regulate individual classroom temperatures, invented a multi-zone pneumatic control system for this purpose. Johnson’s system for temperature regulation was adopted worldwide for office buildings, schools, hospitals, and hotels – essentially any large building with multiple rooms that required temperature regulation.2
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Born Nov 6, 1847, died Dec 5, 1911.1
About
To manufacture and market his system, Johnson established the Johnson Electric Service Company, which eventually became Johnson Controls.
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Companies
- Johnson ControlsFounder10
Early life and education
Johnson was born in Leicester, Vermont, on November 6, 1847. His family moved to Wisconsin three years later, eventually settling in Menomonie, Dunn County, Wisconsin. It appears that he had only limited formal education but supplemented it with private study of scientific subjects. He worked for a time as a printer, surveyor, schoolteacher, principal and school superintendent. In 1876, he obtained a teaching position at the State Normal School in Whitewater, now the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. Five years later, he was named professor of natural science.
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Career
Occupation: inventor.5
- Date not recordedWorked at University of Wisconsin–Whitewater3
- Date not recordedFounded Johnson Controls4
Personal life
Awards
- 2018National Inventors Hall of Fame9
Links
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