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Warren Seymour Johnson (November 6, 1847 – December 5, 1911) was an American college professor who was frustrated by his inability to regulate individual classroom temperatures. His multi-zone pneumatic control system solved the problem.
NIHF Inductee Warren Johnson invented temperature control and co-founded Johnson Controls, helping to launch the multi-billion-dollar building controls industry.
Warren Johnson. Born in 1847 to pioneer Vermont farmers, Warren Seymour Johnson grew up in poverty on a homestead in western Wisconsin. Life was hard. Johnson had to make his own clothes out of canvas and dye them with ink for color.
Even before he founds the firm now known as Johnson Controls, Warren Johnson is the quintessential inventor. His pneumatic tower clocks, electric storage batteries, wireless telegraph business and steam-powered luxury cars and postal service trucks anticipate—and shape—the future. 1883.
Jul 16, 2018 · Warren Johnson one of the 2018 inductees into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his invention of automatic room temperature control. This July marks the anniversary of two seminal...
Johnson Controls founder Warren S. Johnson was inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF) as a member of the Class of 2018. Johnson was honored posthumously for his invention of the temperature control.
Warren Johnson was granted his first patent on July 24, 1883 for the “electric tele-thermoscope,” an electric room thermostat. This device was actually only one component of a system devised by Johnson that was to radically change how temperature was controlled within buildings.
Warren Johnson found compressed air to be a powerful, reliable and safe way to operate devices. His 1895 system was completely mechanical, operating off compressed air that used city water pressure. The water pressure compressors were extremely reliable and long-lasting.
May 28, 2008 · Warren S. Johnson came up with the idea for automatic temperature control while teaching at Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin in the 1880's. Originally, janitors would have to enter each classroom to determine if it was too hot or cold and then adjust the dampers in the basement accordingly.
In 1883, Warren S. Johnson, a professor at the Whitewater Normal School (now University of Wisconsin–Whitewater) in Whitewater, Wisconsin, received a patent for the first electric room thermostat. His invention helped launch the building control industry and was the impetus for a new company.
