Heating and Ventilating Buildings: An Elementary Treatise (1895)

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.

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