History
Léon Creux first patented a scroll compressor in 1905 in France and the US (Patent number 801182). Creux originally invented the compressor as a rotary steam engine concept, but the metal casting technology of the period was not sufficiently advanced to construct a working prototype, since a scroll compressor demands very tight tolerances to function effectively. The first practical scroll compressors did not appear on the market until after World War II, when higher-precision machine tools permitted their construction. They were not commercially produced for air conditioning until the early 1980s.
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