This is an excerpt from Rolla Carpenter's "Heating & Ventilating Buildings" with a table about Experiments on Different Steam-Heated Surfaces and Different Materials (Wrought-Iron, Cast-Iron, Steel, and Brass Pipes. Corrugated, Ringed, and Plain Surfaces). This includes ratings for radiators from the 1800s including the Clogston, Walworth, Union, Triumph, Peirce Excelsior, Gold's Pin Indirect Radiator, Howard Oxbow Radiator, among others.
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...