Take a stroll through HVAC history in our Heating Museum. This section of our website preserves history and answers that so-important question: What the heck is that thing? Whenever you run across anything unusual, chances are you’ll find the old literature about it right here.
This excerpt about the NIRA Window Seat Radiator for Steam and Hot Water Heating is from Facts for Fitters, a 1916 catalog from The Hunting Co.
Thank you to Frank "Steam...
Here is an excerpt from the 1920 and 1922 Ideal Fitter books from American Radiator Company about their Arco Window Radiators.
Thank you to Frank "Steamhead" Wilsey of A...
This brochure from American Standard Hot Water and Steam Heat contains ARCO cast iron radiators literature and ratings from 1959.
Here is a very old patent for T.S. Clogston's Cast Iron Sectional Steam Boiler and Radiator.
This is an excerpt from Rolla Carpenter's "Heating & Ventilating Buildings" with a table about Experiments on Different Steam-Heated Surfaces and Different Materials (Wro...
This document, published in 1924 by the Department of Commerce Bureau of Standards, contains information about Emissive Tests of Paints for Decreasing or Increasing Heat ...
Monitor Bi-Loop Hot Water Radiators are partly filled with water which is heated by steam within the radiator, thereby eliminating the large volume of water to be circula...
This is an excerpt from Transactions of the Society of Heating and Ventilation Engineers from 1920. "It is the purpose of this article to bring together all of the data w...
Here's a good source for the ratings of old H.B. Smith radiators. It starts on page 56.
This catalog contains The H.B. Smith Company's complete line of boilers and radiators in 1929.