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 document contains the story of Herman W. Nelson, founder of the Herman Nelson Corporation and the Moline Heating System (a vacuum-vapor heating system).
People who knew Capt. Montgomery C. Meigs said he was occasionally pompous, but when the job was done to his satisfaction, he said, “This was the most difficult piece of ...
I began my career in the HVAC business in 1970 as a truck driver for an AC/refrigeration wholesaler. I stayed there just six weeks because my father — who worked for a ma...
In the early 1900s, hot-water heating systems had to rely on gravity. This system was simple because it had no moving parts (except for the water, of course), but it was ...
No more double windows! That was the title of an article I read in the Chicago Evening Post. The year was 1911 and the page was yellowed with age.
Mr. Alfred G. King, it’s so good to hear your voice, even though you’ve been dead for quite some time. Thank you, sir.
Here is a superb account of the early history of comfort heating, written by our friend Bern Nagengast for The Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration NEWS.
I was having a conversation the other day with Mr. Ara Marcus Daniels, who is quite dead. I do such things because I have time on my hands and not much of a life. We were...
It was a real battle in the early days of heating. There were steamfitters and then there were the hot water people. I have a wonderful old ad from Honeywell that goes ba...
I have an old book on my shelf that came to me by way of my friend Paul Yunnie. Paul lives in England and is Chairman of the ASHRAE Historical Committee. I time-travel wi...