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.
Barker On Heating: The Theory and Practice of Heating and Ventilation was written by Arthur H. Barker in 1912. To access this book online, click here.
Burning Liquid Fuel was written by William N. Best in 1922 and was subtitled "a practical treatise on the perfect combustion of oils and tars, giving analyses, calorific ...
Published in 1910, the Cyclopedia of Engineering is a general reference work on steam boilers, pumps, engines, and turbines, gas and oil engines, automobiles, marine and ...
Designing Heating and Ventilating Systems was written by Charles A. Fuller in 1914. It is subtitled: "the practical application of the engineering rules and formulas in e...
Electric Heating was written by Edwin Houston and A.E. Kennelly and published in 1895. It is part of a series entitled The Elementary Electro-Technical Series to provide ...
Electric Heating was written by E.A. Wilcox and published in 1916. It "aims to set forth in a practical way the many uses to which electric heat may be applied." And "sug...
Elements of Industrial Heating was published in 1922. "The purpose of this booklet is to draw attention to essential factors governing the quality and cost of products su...
Fans, Ventilation and Heating was written by Charles L. Hubbard and published in 1910. It was part of Machinery's Reference Series and covered centrifugal and disk fans, ...
Fuel Tests with House-Heating Boilers was written by J.M. Snodgrass and published in 1909. It is a report from the University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station.
Furnace Heating: A Practical and Comprehensive Treatise on Warming Buildings with Hot Air was written by William G. Snow and published in 1915. This is the Fifth Edition.