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.
Thanks to Gerry Gill for sharing this Mouat Vapor Heating System proposal from the early days of steam heating. Note the nine-ounce setting on the relief valve. You don't...
A Rudimentary Treatise On Warming and Ventilation was written by Charles Tomlinson in 1858 about heating systems of the time in domestic and public buildings and more. To...
A Practical Treatise Upon Warming Buildings By Hot Water was written by Charles Hood in 1894 and was an enquiry respecting ventilation, the cause and action of draughts i...
The American Society Of Heating And Ventilating Engineers Guide (Volume 13) from 1935 contains reference data on the design and specification of heating and ventilating s...
Here some terrific cutaway views of radiator supply valves, including the Gorton Quarter Turn Packing Lock Radiator Valve, from Gorton & Lidgerwood Co. of New York. Thank...
This circa-1927 book from the Gurney Foundry Company contains information about Gurney boilers, radiators, and water heaters. Thanks to Bob Moore for scanning and sharing...
This circa-1905 booklet contains information about radiators from the Gurney Heater Manufacturing Company, including Gurney radiators, Duet radiators, Tremont radiators, ...
This circa-1927 brochure contains information and radiator ratings for the Gurney Foundry Company's Copley Radiator, a radiator "as beautiful as a piece of fine furniture...
This document contains information about the Heintz Manufacturing Company's Heintz Radiator Unit for concealed heating. Thanks to Frank "Steamhead" Wilsey for finding, sc...
This circa-1930 book shows the ratings for Herman Nelson Invisible Radiators, which were radiators that are inside the walls. This document was scanned and shared by our ...