Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . POINTS ONHE/3TIN(jI 3 Cnas. H. Denison. Chapter 22. This is an inventive and a progressiveage. Seems but a few years ago whenthe principal means of heating was theparlor stove. Pulled up around it andwith our feet on the stove rail, we as-sumed that we were taking the greatestof comfort. Then along came the hot air furnace,which was regarded as a great improve-ment, and we could get our feet warmwithout hoisting them on a stove rail,but we sometimes sputtered and chokedwith the coal gas that came up throughthe hot air register. Old Time
Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . POINTS ONHE/3TIN(jI 3 Cnas. H. Denison. Chapter 22. This is an inventive and a progressiveage. Seems but a few years ago whenthe principal means of heating was theparlor stove. Pulled up around it andwith our feet on the stove rail, we as-sumed that we were taking the greatestof comfort. Then along came the hot air furnace,which was regarded as a great improve-ment, and we could get our feet warmwithout hoisting them on a stove rail,but we sometimes sputtered and chokedwith the coal gas that came up throughthe hot air register. Old Time thengives his belt a hitch and steps out somebrisker, and we have the steam heating,coal burning boiler which, later, or ear-lier, maybe, is adapted to hot waterheating. But all of these contrivances for heat-ing used either coal or wood as the fuelfor furnishing the heat, and what Iwant to describe in this article is asteam boiler used for heating churches,hotels, houses and business blocks, thatburns quite a different fuel, viz>, crudeoil. Your humble servant comes from apart of the cou
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