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.
Light, Heat and Power in Buildings was written by Alton Dermot Adams and published in 1901. "In this volume the object is to present in compact form the main facts on whi...
Live Steam Feed Water Heating was a paper read by Augustus W. Hamilton before The Belfast Mechanical Engineering Association on March 25, 1902. To access this book online...
Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room is "useful to engineers, firemen & mechanics, relating to steam generators, pumps, appliances, steam heating, practical plumbi...
Modern Hot Water Heating, Steam and Gas Fitting was written by W.M. Donaldson and published in 1906. It contains over 150 illustrations and is a "modern treatise on steam...
Modern School Houses was written by A.D.F. Hamilton and published in 1910. It contains a series of authoritative articles on planning, sanitation, heating, and ventilatio...
Notes on Heating and Ventilation was written by John R. Allen and published in 1905. "The chapters comprising this book are a brief resume of the lectures delivered by th...
Practical Ventilation As Applied to Public, Domestic, and Agricultural Structures was written by Robert Scott Burn and published in 1850. It was presented as "an elucidat...
The Principles of Heating was written by William G. Snow and published in 1912. It is "a practical and comprehensive treatise on applied theory in heating." To access thi...
Progressive Furnace Heating was written by Alfred G. King and published in 1914. It is "a practical manual of designing, estimating, and installing modern systems for hea...
The Report of Progress in Warm-Air Furnace Research was published in 1919 as part of the Engineering Experiment Station at the University of Illinois. To access this book...