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.
The Improved Webster Type "R" System of Steam Heating is a service bulletin from Warren Webster and Company (The Pioneers of Vacuum Steam Heating), established in 1888.
This manual was created by O-E Specialty Manufacturing Co. and outlines how to install the "O-E" Perfect System, which is a Vapor Vacuum heating system.
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...