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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.

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U.S. Capitol Radiators

This brochure for Capitol Radiators is from 1928 and was published by the United States Radiator Corporation. Special thanks to Mike Thies for scanning this for us.

Published on 06/12/2014 2:56 PM
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Vento Cast Iron Heaters

This is an excerpt from The Ideal Fitter, which the American Radiator Company published yearly back in the day. It features the Vento Cast Iron Heater. It reads, "Just as...

Published on 06/12/2014 2:50 PM
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Walworth Radiators

Thanks to Frank "Steamhead" Wilsey for finding and scanning these pages. He writes, "These scans are from the Walworth Manufacturing Company's 1892 catalog, which I recen...

Published on 06/12/2014 2:47 PM
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Whittier Radiators

Thanks to Frank "Steamhead" Wilsey for sharing this one with us. He writes, "The first page is from Susan Reed Stifler's book, The Beginnings of a Century of Steam and Wa...

Published on 06/12/2014 2:44 PM
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Radiant Heating for The Modern Home

This circa-1947 brochure from Kohler makes a great case for hydronic heat. The "radiant" they refer to in the title isn't floor-heating, but cast-iron wall radiators.

Published on 06/10/2014 5:14 PM
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