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 Report of Progress in Warm-Air Furnace Research was published in 1919 as part of the Engineering Experiment Station at the University of Illinois. To access this book...
Steam Heating and Ventilation was written by William S. Monroe and published in 1902. It contains information about steam heating systems, indirect radiators, radiation, ...
Steam Heating: A Manual of Practical Data was published by Warren Webster & Company in 1922. To access this book online, click here.
Steam-Heating Problems (or, Questions, Answers, and Descriptions Relating to Steam-Heating and Steam-Fitting) was published by The Sanitary Engineer in 1886. To access th...
The Elements of Heating and Ventilation by Arthur M. Greene was published in 1913 as a text-book for students, engineers, and architects. To access this book online, clic...
The Heating and Ventilating of Buildings was published in 1916 by B.F. Sturtevant Company. It contains interesting old photos of factories and railway buildings.
The Ideal Fitter: American Radiators & Ideal Boilers was published by the American Radiator Company in 1910 and contains the boilers and radiators they manufactured at th...
The Metal Worker, published in 1891, contains essays on house heating by steam, hot water, and hot air, with introduction and tabular comparisons. To access this book onl...
The School House, Its Heating and Ventilation was written by Joseph A. Moore and published in 1905. The writer was "engaged in the inspection of public buildings in Massa...
The Ventilation Handbook was written by Charles L. Hubbard and published in 1916. It outlines "the principles and practice of ventilation as applied to furnace heating; d...