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Radiators and Pandemics: A Curious Marriage

HeatingHelp
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edited May 2021 in THE MAIN WALL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlJnSDbaHzM

Radiators and Pandemics: A Curious Marriage

This video is a recording of Dan Holohan's popular seminar Radiators and Pandemics: A Curious Marriage. It was hosted by The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen on March 2, 2021.

When Dan Holohan was researching his book, The Lost Art of Steam Heating, in the late-1980s, he came upon a reference to The Fresh Air Movement that made him curious. He dug deeper and learned of the relationship between steam- and hot-water radiators and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic. Boards of Health and the Anti-tuberculosis League were demanding that windows be left partially open to help fight disease, and this changed the way we heat buildings for decades to follow.

Mr. Holohan dug deeper still and learned that disease actually inspired the very invention of the radiator before the Civil War, and that Harriet Beecher Stowe also played a role after the war. It's a curious marriage that radiators and pandemics have, and one that continues through this modern-day pandemic.

Comments

  • PC7060
    PC7060 Member Posts: 1,375
    Great presentation and love the q&a. 
  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,594
    Thanks! I enjoyed that one. 
    Retired and loving it.
  • PC7060
    PC7060 Member Posts: 1,375
    Really appreciate your message of the value of old windows and radiators. I restored original 39 windows and radiators (HW) in our home and my lovely boss and the cat couldn’t be happier. 



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