Chancellor Emeritus, Gaylon Greenhill, passed along an article from the January 8 Forbes Magazine. The subject was the 121-year-old Johnson Controls company and included the following mention of our school:
"The company started in the temperature-controls business in 1885, two years after its founder, Warren S. Johnson, a professor at the State Normal School in Whitewater, Wis., received a patent for the electric room thermostat. Over the next three decades he dabbled in a variety of new technologies –electric storage batteries, steam-and gas-powered automobiles and a wireless telegraph–but after his death in 1911 the company focused again on temperature controls."
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