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 Hot Air, Fifth Edition, 1879. The first edition of Mr. Hood's book appeared in London in 1837.
Here is the original Installation and Operating Instructions and Parts List for The H.B. Smith Company's Oil Fired Cast Iron Hot Water Boilers (No. OHB-13W). This is esti...
The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI has an interesting hot-water heating system. Take a look at the radiators below. They are from the Shaw-Perkins Manufacturing Compan...
We estimate that this cast-iron boiler catalog from The Peerless Heater Company in Boyertown, PA is from the 1980s or 1990s.