This article about steam heating is from an 1871 edition of Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine. Note the highly critical comments regarding those who tended the boilers.
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...