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Wiring Diagrams, Heating and Ventilation, Miscellaneous Tables is a booklet from Machinery's Data Sheets, published in 1910. To access this book online, click here.
Here is an excellent piece about pneumatic controls for heating systems from an old-school leader in the field, Johnson Controls.
To some, water heaters are as mysterious as a black hole. That black hole sucks in nearly six million heaters (from the United States) each year as people endure the cycl...
You could install a water heater in your sleep, right? Well, you've probably had to deal with installations that look like that's what someone did, and they're not a pret...
Paloma, Bosch, Rinnai, Takagi...there are lots of tankless, or instantaneous, water heaters out there these days. They do a great job and lots of homes in Europe use them...
This patent is courtesy of the late, great Joe Szakacs. Joe loved anything Bryant. He told us that this is the first boiler Bryant ever manufactured.
Here is a patent for a Bell & Gossett water heater from 1930. Thanks to Steve Pajek for finding and sharing the patent.
Here is a circa-1932 patent for a humidifier that also cleaned the air in the room. Thanks to Gerry Gill for finding and sharing this patent with us.
Humidity in House Heating: The Cause And Control of Air Dryness In House Heating is a circa-1929 booklet from the Dominion Fuel Board and the Natural Resources Intelligen...
K. C. Richmond, Editor of Coal-Heat magazine, questioned 38 industry leaders and published this booklet in July, 1942.
