We always have turkey for Thanksgiving. I mean who doesn’t? My job wasn’t to cook it, though; it was to eat it.
The First Hot-Water Heating System
Jean Simon Bonnemain created the very first hot-water heating system in Paris in 1777 to heat chickens. In this video, Dan Holohan shares how this system worked and how it led to gravity hot-water heating systems.
Want to learn more? Read Dan Holohan’s book Classic Hydronics: How to Get the Most From Those Older Hot-Water Heating Systems.
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