In this episode, Dan Holohan shares the story of how the air vent made quite an impression on those who were able to afford this relatively new thing called steam heat in...
Archive for June, 2022
The Magic of a Simple Air Vent
The Hartford Loop
From 1879 to 1891 there were 2,159 reported steam boiler explosions in the US. In this episode, Dan Holohan shares the story behind a piping configuration that saved boil...
The Foundry
Boilers don’t come from catalogs. In this episode, Dan Holohan takes us to a foundry where boilers are born. Episode Transcript I asked Sissy about the floor in the old b...
Old-School Solutions
In this episode, Dan Holohan takes you to a circa-1871 loft building in NYC and shows you how Paul and Joe are running a large steam-heating system without steam traps us...