During HeatingHelp.com’s Dead Men Tales podcast, industry expert and master storyteller Dan Holohan shares the stories behind the work and fun facts you may not know about heating history.

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• Hindsight

  Published 8/3/21 by Dan Holohan

   In this episode, Dan Holohan reflects on how hindsight has us shaking our heads at wacky decisions of the past, especially the one involving an asbestos hat. Episode TranscriptI have an...

• The Metal Manometer

  Published 7/27/21 by Dan Holohan

   At first, Eugene Bourdon was annoyed when he saw what his worker had done to the metal tube, but then it gave him an idea that would save countless lives.

• The Little-Known Story Behind a Popular Tool

  Published 7/20/21 by Dan Holohan

   In this episode, Dan Holohan shares the fascinating story behind one of the world’s most widely used inventions.  Episode TranscriptNot far from where our daughter, Colleen, and her husband, Adam, used...

• The Hidden Air Vent

  Published 7/13/21 by Dan Holohan

  In this episode, Dan Holohan tells us about the time he channeled MacGyver when fixing a radiator with a very unusual old air vent.  Episode Transcript Our old family dentist, Doctor...

• The Duke Mansion Mystery

  Published 7/6/21 by Dan Holohan

   In this episode, Dan Holohan shares a whodunit mystery involving the hot-water-heating system at the sprawling mansion of Doris Duke. Episode TranscriptNot long after The Lovely Marianne and I started that...

• Novels and Heating History

  Published 6/29/21 by Dan Holohan

   In 1918, the person who could bring steam- or hot-water heat to your home was nearly a magician.

• What Might Have Been

  Published 6/22/21 by Dan Holohan

   John Bartlett Pierce grew up in Maine, worked in a hardware store, and fell in love with hydronic heating.

• My Father's Way

  Published 6/15/21 by Dan Holohan

  Ed Holohan came back from the war in the Pacific and went to work in a supply house because they were hiring strong, young men who wanted to work six...

• How to Embarrass a Beautiful Old Radiator

  Published 6/8/21 by Dan Holohan

  In this episode, Dan Holohan takes us to a seaside Victorian estate and meets a beautiful old radiator with tears in its eyes. Episode TranscriptIf radiators could talk, I think many...

• The Great Experimenter

  Published 6/1/21 by Dan Holohan

   John Mills was one of the great-granddaddies of heating. He worked with the H.B. Smith Company as a freelance inventor and engineer from 1873 until 1897.

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