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A Practical Manual of Steam and Hot-Water Heating was written by Edward Richmond Pierce in 1911. This will give you a glimpse into what heating was like during that time ...
William C. Wolfe's circa-1879 patent for a water feeder shows an invention that is remarkable simple and fully automatic. It's probably one of the earliest feeders to app...
Turbonics offered this unusual steam system, which Iron Fireman had come up with years before. It was called SelecTemp and offered self-modulating zone heating. Thanks to...
Over the years, I've asked friends in this business where the hydronics industry is located. They shake their heads and look confused. "I mean if you had to get in your c...
If you're replacing a steam boiler, there's only one right way to size that boiler, and that's to measure the radiators. If you're replacing a hot-water boiler, you'll do...
Years ago, back when he was still making magic in his family's business, I'd get together with Al and his brother Richie, The Man Who Can Fix Anything. We'd go into old h...
Some of what I’m about to tell you may be tough to swallow, but it’s all true. If you pay close attention, you’ll understand once and for all why low pressure is good. Le...
On the afternoon that I was born, and thirty or so miles east of the place where I was born, men were leveling Long Island potato fields and laying out the building plots...
That I can get excited about compression tanks probably means that I'd be a lousy lunch companion, right? I mean who wants to hear about solving problems with something t...
Igor Zhadanovsky is one of the brightest people I have ever met. This paper is one you should read if you're involved with buildings that have steam heat, regardless of t...
