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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.
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.
NIHF Inductee Warren Johnson invented temperature control and co-founded Johnson Controls, helping to launch the multi-billion-dollar building controls industry.
Our History. In 1885, long before anyone talks about carbon footprints or climate change, Warren Johnson launches a company to explore new ways to harness and conserve precious energy resources.
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.
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...
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.
Warren S. Johnson Warren Johnson was born in 1847 in Leicester, Vermont, to homesteading farmers. Two years later, the family moved to Wisconsin, where the largely self-taught Johnson...
Nov 11, 2011 · Warren S. Johnson, professor at Whitewater Normal School and founder of Johnson Controls, received a patent for the first electronic room thermostat in 1883. The Innovation Center will honor his extraordinary spirit and contributions to technology and the community with a commemorative display.
