Heating and Ventilating Buildings: An Elementary Treatise was written by Rolla C. Carpenter and published in 1895. It contains information about the nature and properties of heat, principles of ventilation, the amount of heat required for warming, heat given off from radiating surfaces, pipe and fittings used in steam and hot-water heating, radiators and heating surfaces, steam-heating boilers and hot-water heaters, settings and appliances (methods of operating), various systems of piping, design of steam and hot-water systems, heating with exhaust steam non-gravity return systems, heating with hot air, forced-blast systems of heating and ventilating, heating with electricity, temperature regulators, specification proposals and business suggestions, and more. To access this book online, click here.
Here is the original Installation and Operating Instructions and Parts List for The H.B. Smith Company's Oil Fired Cast Iron Hot Water Boilers (No. OHB-13W). This is esti...
The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI has an interesting hot-water heating system. Take a look at the radiators below. They are from the Shaw-Perkins Manufacturing Compan...
We estimate that this cast-iron boiler catalog from The Peerless Heater Company in Boyertown, PA is from the 1980s or 1990s.