Take a stroll through HVAC history in our Heating Museum. This section of our website preserves history and answers that so-important question: What the heck is that thing? Whenever you run across anything unusual, chances are you’ll find the old literature about it right here.
This chapter on hot water heating systems and piping was prepared by Professor F.E. Giesecke (Director of Texas Engineering Experiment Station in TX) for the The American...
A Practical Manual of Steam and Hot-Water Heating was written by Edward Richmond Pierce in 1911. This will give you a glimpse into what heating was like during that time ...
Click here to access this catalog for Clow Gasteam Heating Systems from James B. Clow & Sons, published in 1929.
A Rudimentary Treatise On Warming and Ventilation was written by Charles Tomlinson in 1858 about heating systems of the time in domestic and public buildings and more. To...
A Practical Treatise Upon Warming Buildings By Hot Water was written by Charles Hood in 1894 and was an enquiry respecting ventilation, the cause and action of draughts i...
The American Society Of Heating And Ventilating Engineers Guide (Volume 13) from 1935 contains reference data on the design and specification of heating and ventilating s...
Thanks to Jim Gaynor, P.E. of JSA Architects in Pittsburgh for finding, scanning and sharing this remarkable guide. National Heating Guide Bluebook of the Industry, 1930,...
American Steam and Hot-Water Heating Practice was written in 1895 and includes descriptions of hot-water, steam-heating, and ventilating installations in the different cl...
An Outline of Ventilation and Warming was written by WM. J. Baldwin in 1899.
Barker On Heating: The Theory and Practice of Heating and Ventilation was written by Arthur H. Barker in 1912. To access this book online, click here.