Warren Johnson, The Father of Thermostats and Automated Room Temperature Control
2018-07-19
Many residential and commercial buildings across the United States have heating and cooling systems which are controlled by thermostats, usually an electronic instrument which is designed to detect and regulate temperature within an enclosed space to maintain a desired setpoint temperature. As of July 2017, 41 percent of American homes had a programmable thermostat according to the U.S. Energy Information Association.