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Thanks to Frank "Steamhead" Wilsey for finding and scanning these pages. He writes, "These scans are from the Walworth Manufacturing Company's 1892 catalog, which I recen...

Thanks to Frank "Steamhead" Wilsey for sharing this one with us. He writes, "The first page is from Susan Reed Stifler's book, The Beginnings of a Century of Steam and Wa...

This catalog from the Young Radiator Company contains information about the Young copper convectors, as made in 1937.

This document is subtitled "And also a Method of Preventing Ships from Leaking" and was written by Col. Wm. Cook.

Eckstein's and Busby's Patent Circulator was the first circulator. This document is from Charles Hood's A Practical Treatise on Warming Buildings by Hot Water, Steam, and...

Here is the patent for Stephen J. Gold's "mattress" radiator. This is the first radiator that was a commercial success in America.

This excerpt is from an 1845 book titled, Bernan's History and Art of Warming and Ventilating Rooms and Buildings. Walter Bernan was a Civil Engineer in London. What we h...

Stephen Gold was the inventor of the first radiator, the "mattress" radiator. Here is is patent for his boiler, which appeared nine years later. Much thanks to Gerry Gill...

This excerpt about ventilation on slave ships is from David Boswell Reid's circa-1844 book, Theory and Practice of Ventilation. 

This is a great article from Home Energy Magazine. The author is Jonathan Beers, Residential Services Manager at Madison Gas and Electric Company. We thank him for giving...