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Twenty-five years ago, I wrote a story for this fine magazine I titled it, "Only Gus Touch." Over the years, many people have told me they still remember that tale and as...

Gordon Schweizer of All Steamed Up, Inc. says, "When 'modern' steam boilers replace their coal-fired antecedents, water levels in the system drop, often exposing purposel...

Here is an advertisement for H. G. Ashton's Insulated Lock Safety Valve from 1872.

A patent for H.G. Ashton's Improvement in Lock Safety Valves for Steam Boilers. (Courtesy of Rick Ashton, great great grandson of Henry G.

Every steam system is an open system. Water expands 1,700 times when it changes to steam, and that shoves the air out. Steam condenses inside the pipes and radiators and ...

A contractor friend decided to take on a part-time job teaching at a local technical school. He had never done this before. “Teaching is hard,” I said.

Steam heating continues to be a vital and cost-effective way of providing heat and hot water to many of New York City's older buildings, and a core part of the infrastruc...

No more double windows! That was the title of an article I read in the Chicago Evening Post. The year was 1911 and the page was yellowed with age.

This brochure from American Standard Hot Water and Steam Heat contains ARCO cast iron radiators literature and ratings from 1959.

 

Here on the Isle of Long, if you throw a stick you’ll probably hit a Target store. I don’t have a problem with that because I really like Target stores. They usually have...