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Uncommon card · Science
Willis Carrier, an Uncommon card
Willis Haviland Carrier was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning by inventing the first electrical air conditioning unit in 1902.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 101
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 101 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Willis Carrier quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Willis Carrier card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Willis Haviland Carrier was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning by inventing the first electrical air conditioning unit in ____.
Answer
1900s. Willis Haviland Carrier was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning by inventing the first electrical air conditioning unit in 1902. From the Willis Carrier article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Microdata. Microdata 3,600,000 · CMYK color model 200,000 · Willis Carrier 150,000 · Boris Choubert 300 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In 1915, he founded Carrier Corporation, a company specializing in the manufacture and distribution of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Willis Carrier article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Willis Carrier
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Willis Carrier (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : 100th Anniversary Press Kit - Carrier Corp, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
