. Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, business and commercial center; with brief sketches of its history, attractions, leading industries, and institutions ... hey are the inventors, the contracts in some of the largest,including Dr. Halls on Fifth Avenue, New York City, were awardedto them on the merits of the system over numerous competitors, withlittle regard to other bids either above or below. In 1873, the board of American engineers* at the Vienna exposi- * The following extracts are from a letter written by T. R. Pickering, engineerU. S. Department, Vienna Exposition, bearing date, Vie
. Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, business and commercial center; with brief sketches of its history, attractions, leading industries, and institutions ... hey are the inventors, the contracts in some of the largest,including Dr. Halls on Fifth Avenue, New York City, were awardedto them on the merits of the system over numerous competitors, withlittle regard to other bids either above or below. In 1873, the board of American engineers* at the Vienna exposi- * The following extracts are from a letter written by T. R. Pickering, engineerU. S. Department, Vienna Exposition, bearing date, Vienna, July 23, 1873: . . Your boiler was subjected to the customary hydrostatic test, and it wasdeclared by the officer in charge to be the only one of the entire collection at thisexposition which stood the cold water test without leaking. And now the boilerhas been in constant use nearly two and a half months, and has, to the surpriseof tvery one (including myself), supplied our department with all the steam weneed, and that with very easy firing and poor coal. ... I am now, morethan ever, impressed with the economy and safety of this style of IOS THE CITY OF HARTFORD, COXX. tion, solicited Pitkin Brothers & Co. to send thither a seventy-horse-power boiler to run the machinery of the American department. Theboiler did such excellent service that it brought a high award andwas purchased by a foreign house for its own use. When the Connecticut Steam Heating Co. was organized in 1854to manufacture, under the patents of Stephen J. Gold, the first steamheating apparatus ever invented wherein the water returns to theboiler by gravity without mechanical appliances, A. P. Pitkin, one ofthe directors, was paid two thousand dollars a year to visit the shopat New Haven one day in each week. Every system where the waterthus returns embodies the vital principle of Golds invention. As a dealer in lead pipe, A. P. Pitkin early recognized the perilsfrom lead poisoning, and applied hi
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