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The Early Years

More than a century of exceeding expectations
1885 Johnson Electric Service Company founded
1887 Company pays first dividend
1902 Name changed to Johnson Service Co.
1903 Johnson humidostat specified by Willis Carrier for one of the world's first air conditioning installations -- a printing plant in Pennsylvania
1910 Opened first European sales offices
1940 Johnson Service Co. securities first listed on what is today the NASDAQ exchange
1956 Introduced Pneumatic Control Center, enabling centralized monitoring of building conditions for the first time