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.
The Copper & Brass Research Association published this brochure in 1949. It tells the radiant heating story very well, and the installation photos are well worth a look.
This is an interesting article by F. W. Hutchinson, from Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning magazine, March 1946.
This is a case study from the A. M. Byers Company of Pittsburgh, circa 1945.
Here is a case study by A. M. Byers Company of Pittsburgh, circa 1945.
Ernest L. Blair, industrial engineer, Stone & Webster, describes a new building heated entirely by radiant floor and wall panels. This is from Power magazine, October, 19...
The Copper & Brass Research Association published this generic and easy-to-follow brochure in 1949. It contains some wonderful photographs of early installations, includi...
This article is by Doremus L. Mills of Revere Copper and Brass, written in 1948. In it he "reviews radiant heating technique with which heating contractors should be conv...
This brochure from United States Steel about Radiant Heating with National Pipe is a complete look at radiant heating from 1951.
This 1948 booklet from Bethlehem Steel about their Rayduct pipe for radiant heating is filled with photos of radiant heating jobs. It contains some very to-the-point info...
Here's a letter in answer to a question as to how to install radiant heat in a multi-story building. The answer may surprise you. Byers Company made wrought iron pipe.