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This is an excerpt of the Beacon Boiler Reference Book, Sixth Edition and includes ratings for boilers made prior to 1959. This section contains pages 213 through 246 and...
There was a day when I posted a challenge on The Wall. I asked contractors to give me 100 reasons why people should do business with them. Most of the posters struggled t...
I once visited an engineer who worked for the City of New York. He worked at a pitted drafting table in a green room that occupied about an acre of New York City real est...
This is the Trade Name Index from the Beacon Boiler Reference Book, Sixth Edition, which includes ratings for boilers made prior to 1959. Please see the other documents l...
RULE #1: Step Back, Take It All In And Think In Basic Terms. Too many people look at components instead of systems. Manufacturers are often guilty of this. Many of them c...
H.C. Oswald Supply is in an old-brick building, sitting swat on a street in the Bronx, less than three miles from Yankee Stadium. They started their business in 1923, jus...
Each Thursday morning, I send a free e-newsletter to more than 5,000 opt-in subscribers. It usually contains seven links to interesting stories (some of which even have t...
Last summer, when we were roasting in that July heat wave, Ron Friedman, Ph.D, wrote a brilliant article for Psychology Today magazine. He titled it, Want More Productive...
Our daughter, Kelly, and her husband, Craig, wanted to give our grandchildren names that would never appear on a souvenir rack in a touristy store, so they named our gran...
This is an excerpt from the Beacon Boiler Reference Book and includes ratings for boilers made between 1959 and 1972. This section contains pages A1 through A19 and inclu...
