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.
Here are the results of a survey among owners and renters in the Palo Alto, CA area, whose homes are equipped with radiant floor panel heating systems. This is from the W...
The material in this pamphlet was prepared by the National Joint Steamfitter-Pipefitter Apprenticeship Committee in 1955. There are a lot of very good photos of radiant h...
Here is some helpful circa-1948 advice about troubleshooting radiant heating systems from our friends at Bell & Gossett.
This very rare, circa-1897 catalog from the American Radiator Company comes to us by way of Frank "Steamhead" Wilsey. It's filled with hard-to-find radiator ratings. Than...
This article about the development of the radiator, written by Ara Marcus Daniels, appeared in Domestic Engineering magazine on January 11, 1930.
This catalog from the American Radiator Company is from 1920. It contains ratings for the American Peerless (formerly Rococo) Wall radiators, as well as many nice photos.
This catalog from the American Radiator Company from 1922 features the Corto radiator, which they called The Radiator Classic. Thanks to Bob Moore for scanning and sharin...
This 1937 catalog has many of the cast-iron convectors made by the American Radiator Company, including the Corto Radiators, Arco Radiators, Fantom Radiators, Indirect Ra...
Here is a nice mailer from American-Standard Heating and Plumbing with lots of information about their radiators and convectors from 1946. Thanks to Kirby Slear for scann...
This is a circa-1956 installation manual for American-Standard Radiantrim baseboard panels.