Old boiler rooms are often home to steam-heating boilers. Older cities are loaded with these and lots of people — knuckleheads included — have had decades to mess with what the “dead men” once ...

If you live and work anywhere near the Northeast corridor, you probably see more residential steam heating systems than the entire rest of the nation combined. Nearly one-third of all Americans live ...

So, I live in an old brownstone in Brooklyn, and it has steam heat and one thermostat for all 8 apartments. The building is four stories - 2 apartments per floor - long skinny apartments reaching ...

THE CALL: One of my favorite customers called me about a job we looked at years ago. I like this customer because he loves to talk about history and there is so much about steam heating that involves ...

One of the most common home heating systems for older houses in the Northeast and other cold-climate areas is a boiler. Boilers heat water, and then distribute hot steam or hot water to rooms through ...

Nineteenth-century technology is finally being phased out in New York City, but its past is deeply entwined with American history Until recently, my girlfriend and I lived in a steam-heated apartment ...

Forced outages of steam boilers due to tube leakages remain the leading cause of lost production in plants. Due to hundreds, if not thousands of linear feet of pipe, there is a high potential for ...

My desk dictionary is a compact paperback model that lost the front cover many years ago. I use it a lot because I am a terrible speller. In grade school I was great at math, but lousy at spelling. It ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a model of an early (ca 1802) ...