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Turbonics offered this unusual steam system, which Iron Fireman had come up with years before. It was called SelecTemp and offered self-modulating zone heating. Thanks to...

Here's a good source for the ratings of old H.B. Smith radiators. It starts on page 56.

The McAlear Vacuum Air-line Heating System was one of the early vacuum steam heating systems. See their catalog here.

The Building Technology Heritage Library (BTHL) is primarily a collection of American and Canadian, pre-1964 architectural trade catalogs, house plan books and technical ...

Thanks to Bob Polizzi for finding not only photos of T.J. Sullivan's vacuum regulator in place, but also its patent, which explains the entire operation of a device that ...

Larry Weingarten, who knows more about water heaters than most of us, shared this circa-1932 booklet about The Danger of Food Contamination by Aluminum. We include it in ...

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...

This catalog contains The H.B. Smith Company's complete line of boilers and radiators in 1929.

This is a catalog from the National Radiator Company from 1926 showcasing their boilers and radiators.

This catalog from the National Radiator Company dates back to 1903 and features their Solus and Imperial radiators.