Dan Holohan makes The New Yorker

ArthurPeabody

‘New Yorkers who live in old buildings heated by steam radiators often complain that they have to open windows during the winter to keep room temperatures in their apartments tolerable. Most assume that the cause is a flaw in the design of those buildings' heating systems, but in many cases the excess heat was a deliberate response to the flu pandemic. Dan Holohan, in "The Lost Art of Steam Heating Revisited," published in 1992, writes that, beginning about 1920, the authors of engineering manuals revised their recommendations for boilers and radiators in new construction. The changed specs called for equipment that was "large enough to heat the building on the coldest day of the year, with the windows open," he writes. Those overheated buildings are, in effect, the remnants of an early theory about the prevention and treatment of respiratory disease.’

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/inside-out

DanHolohan

That was news to me. Thanks!

Mad Dog_2

Well it's about time, the rest of the world knows about OUR literary giant of his industry!! Congrats 👏 Dano. Mad Dog 🐕

Alan (California Radiant) Forbes

@ArthurPeabody You must work for the magazine. I don't see the article in any of the current issues. It was only written 2 days ago.

Mad Dog_2

Could someone post a link, please 🙏. Mad Dog 🐕

HeatingHelp.com

https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1807044#Comment_1807044

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/inside-out

Mad Dog_2

I remember Dan & I being interviewed by Ric Murray & his HVAC TV camera crew on my restored front porch 2002ish. I'll dig up the Picture. Porches MAKE any 🏡 home. My earliest memories were at Lake Keuka (Finger Lakes NY) watching a wicked thunder ⛈️ summer storm. Lightning actually struck the 250 yr old tree about 40 feet away from us...1974 or so. When it rained 🌧 on the Lake, we'd play board games on the porch, grandma 👵 Ethel would bring us lunch, Grandpa Norb would be typing away cranking out letters and policy papers....Fine times on those porches...Even the simple Levittown homes have them now...Mad Dog 🐕