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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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• The Illuminating Beginnings of Gas Boilers

  Published 3/30/21 by Dan Holohan

  In this episode, Dan Holohan takes us back to 1917 when the gas lighting industry, threatened by Edison’s lightbulb, branched into the business of gas boilers and furnaces. Episode TranscriptAh, gaslight.

• Heating John Lennon’s Apartment

  Published 3/23/21 by Dan Holohan

  In this episode, Dan Holohan takes us to NYC’s Dakota Apartments, where John Lennon once lived.

• How Schlemmer’s Tee Shaped Hydronics

  Published 3/16/21 by Dan Holohan

  Oliver Schlemmer’s fitting was the first tee capable of consciously diverting water into a radiator. In this episode, Dan Holohan shares how the O-S fitting paved the way for modern...

• The Curious History of PEX

  Published 3/9/21 by Dan Holohan

  If a shoe factory had been present in Thomas Engel’s vicinity at the time he invented PEX, we would perhaps today be walking around on shoe soles made of cross-linked polyethylene.

• Heating and Horror at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin

  Published 3/2/21 by Dan Holohan

  In this episode, Dan Holohan tells us about Frank Lloyd Wright’s unique heating system at Taliesin and how a horrific 1914 event took its toll on the home and its...