The President would be perspiring within minutes--a huge embarrassment for a 121-year-old company that was a pioneer with the electric room thermostat.

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The 126-year-old diversified technology and industrial firm has been committed to sustainability since day one, when its founder, Warren S. Johnson, invented the first electric room thermostat.

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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, Wisconsin, received a patent for the electric room thermostat.

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Depending on an applicant's needs, it will pay for things such as loft insulation, draught proofing, gas room heaters with thermostat controls, gas, electric or oil central heating.

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