Brian Roberts & Paul Yunnie compiled this document that contains beautiful vintage advertisements and illustrations of radiators from the mid to late 1800s and early 1900...
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Take a stroll through HVAC history in our Heating Museum. This section of our website preserves history and answers that so-important question: What the heck is that thing? Whenever you run across anything unusual, chances are you’ll find the old literature about it right here.
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This Wallace-Eannace Assoc. newsletter from 1986 focuses on industry education at the time and the early career of Dan Holohan, industry author and teacher.
The Carton Furnace Company is located in Utica, NY and began making boilers in 1847. This is a catalog of Carton Steam and Hot Water Heaters.
K. C. Richmond, Editor of Coal-Heat magazine, questioned 38 industry leaders and published this booklet in July, 1942.
This article is from the American Gas Journal, October 11, 1925. It's a fine tale about The Story of Gas with many vintage photographs and drawings.
This is a reprint of an article that first appeared in the A.S.H.V.E. Journal section of Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning magazine in January 1931.
Thanks to Frank "Steamhead" Wilsey for finding and scanning this 1928 document, which announces the formation of the National Radiator Corporation from six smaller compan...
This is a wonderful review of the heating industry from its inception through 1960. It's told by our friends at Honeywell in their Trade Winds magazine.
This is the History of the Water Feeder and Low-Water Cutoff, as told by E. N. McDonnell of McDonnell & Miller to his sales people.
Hugh J. Barron of the Barron Steam Heating Company, a New-York-based engineering firm, made this speech to the Master Steam and Hot-Water Fitters Association of the Unite...