This is an excerpt from Rolla Carpenter's "Heating & Ventilating Buildings" with a table about Experiments on Different Steam-Heated Surfaces and Different Materials (Wrought-Iron, Cast-Iron, Steel, and Brass Pipes. Corrugated, Ringed, and Plain Surfaces). This includes ratings for radiators from the 1800s including the Clogston, Walworth, Union, Triumph, Peirce Excelsior, Gold's Pin Indirect Radiator, Howard Oxbow Radiator, among others.
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.