History of the BTU

Paul Rohrs_2

Hello all, I am looking for anecdotel information on the History of the BTU. Google search is giving me nothing. I want to gather that info and use it in some presentations I am doing in the future.

Specifically looking for the year and names of the participants which gave it the moniker BTU.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
PR

Mike T., Swampeast MO

Click "The Library" on this site.

Click Very Old Stuff

Look for the article titled, The Origin of the British Thermal Unit.

T. Bramah in 1836

Bill Nye_2

Thomas Tredgold

is the british feller that coined the phrase. 1894 I wanna' guess , with out looking it up . He invented quite a few other things. Try googling Tom.

Steamhead

It's also covered

along with much more thermal history, in the first chapter of "The Lost Art of Steam Heating", available on the Books and More page of this site.

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DanHolohan

It pays

to wander off the Wall.

Maine doug_2

Once upon a time

during a dark and stormy night, this English feller said, "What I need is some good old fashioned British Thermal Underwear". His equally cold friend, a clothing manufacturer, responded, "What a great idea, we can call them BTU's". And so BTU's became known throughout the empire as providing heat where most needed. But the name was changed to BVD when the 13 colonies were invented. This was "Boston VD" and came about when someone at a big tea party invented SOX.

However in the plumbing trade, resistant to new ideas, tradesmen still referred to the heat required to keep warm as BTU's. So there you have it, a bit of thermodynamic history.

Paul Rohrs

unable to

download the PDF file for some reason. Would someone email it directly to me. A thousand thank-you's.

Pretty bad that it was right in front of me the whole time. Thanks Dan for all you do.

Regards,

PR

ScottMP

hopefully its

on its way.

Scott

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Mike T., Swampeast MO

Have noticed that some things in "The Library" don't come up with a click.

If that happens, RIGHT click and select "Save Target As" then rename the file and save it to your desired location.

Paul Rohrs_2

Thanks Scott and Mike

Got it. Sage advice as always.

Regards,

PR