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.
This booklet from 1905 showcases how American Radiator Company's radiators could become decorative pieces in a home. It highlights the "beauty in modern radiators" of tha...
American Radiator Company manufactured their Colonial Wall Radiators around 1905. The document attached below is an excerpt from The Ideal Fitter (1905) that states "The ...
Here are ratings for the Erie radiator from Jarecki Mfg Co Ltd. They were based in Erie, PA and their radiators appeared in issues of Domestic Engineering in the 1890s.
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...
Click here to view a beautifully illustrated catalog of circa-1890 Bundy radiators from the A.A. Griffing Iron Co.
This excerpt about the NIRA Window Seat Radiator for Steam and Hot Water Heating is from Facts for Fitters, a 1916 catalog from The Hunting Co.
Thank you to Frank "Steam...
Here is an excerpt from the 1920 and 1922 Ideal Fitter books from American Radiator Company about their Arco Window Radiators.
Thank you to Frank "Steamhead" Wilsey of A...
This brochure from American Standard Hot Water and Steam Heat contains ARCO cast iron radiators literature and ratings from 1959.
Here is a very old patent for T.S. Clogston's Cast Iron Sectional Steam Boiler and Radiator.
This is an excerpt from Rolla Carpenter's "Heating & Ventilating Buildings" with a table about Experiments on Different Steam-Heated Surfaces and Different Materials (Wro...