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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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• Heating The Breakers

  Published 12/29/20 by Dan Holohan

   John D. Clarke knew how to heat a 70-room cottage in 1893. And he got it right the very first time.

• The Paul System and Other Delightful Discoveries

  Published 12/22/20 by Dan Holohan

   You never know what you’ll come across when you’re the heating person. It’s a wonderful life.

• The Surprising Stories Behind Heating Inventions

  Published 12/15/20 by Dan Holohan

   Did you know that the first pressure relief valve was invented in 1681 because the King of England really liked jelly? And that the first gravity heating system was used...

• Building a House Every Two Hours

  Published 12/8/20 by Dan Holohan

  In the 1940s, William Levitt built a community of 17,447 homes, completing one house every two hours.

• What the 1918 Flu Taught Us About Heating During a Pandemic

  Published 12/1/20 by Dan Holohan

   In this episode, Dan Holohan shares how the 1918-19 pandemic changed the way we pipe heating systems and the type of windows we use, why radiators are painted silver, and...