Electrical news and engineering . :.-! THE ELECTRICAL NEWS February 1, 1919 outdoor reading and orresponded very closely with the readings taken at the Observatory and published day by jay. ?< imeter was placed as nearly as pos- n the centre of the house, on the ground floor, the rooms beinj in : in the usual way by i11 doorways, so that the whole house was at the same temperaturethroughout. The housi is a detached semi-bungalow type with abouttwo fi il . ,,n one side and seven ? r eight feet on the. other. Tyndall Avenue runs north and south and No. 23 ison the east side so that the house
Electrical news and engineering . :.-! THE ELECTRICAL NEWS February 1, 1919 outdoor reading and orresponded very closely with the readings taken at the Observatory and published day by jay. ?< imeter was placed as nearly as pos- n the centre of the house, on the ground floor, the rooms beinj in : in the usual way by i11 doorways, so that the whole house was at the same temperaturethroughout. The housi is a detached semi-bungalow type with abouttwo fi il . ,,n one side and seven ? r eight feet on the. other. Tyndall Avenue runs north and south and No. 23 ison the east side so that the house is facing west. It is theregular builders type, 23,000 cubic feet in volume, 8 rooms,brick walls, wood shingles. The maximum capacity of theheater elements is 24 kilowatts, so that the installationworks out at 1 04 watts per cubic foot of air space. Thewindows and doors are equipped with metal weather strip,but there are no double windows or doors and no is important to remember, too, that these figureswere taken for the coldest winter ever recorded in the cityof Toronto, compared with which the present January feelslike regular summer weather. Apparatus and Control When the house was built it was equipped with an or-dinary hot water heating system. For the purpose of elec-tric heating the coal furnace was simply paralleled with ahot water boiler two feet in diameter and two feet high,which - ped with live }.s kw. nichrome heating ele ments n the water. The element-, and the tank we
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