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The Great Experimenter

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The Great Experimenter

John Mills was one of the great-granddaddies of heating. He worked with the H.B. Smith Company as a freelance inventor and engineer from 1873 until 1897. In this episode, Dan Holohan shares why you may think of John Mills the next time you’re doing a heat-loss calculation or looking at an old steam heating system.

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  • jumper
    jumper Member Posts: 2,606

    Overhead distribution also has advantages on two pipe systems. I suspect that giant screwed fitting had parallel threads. So another question is how was sealing accomplished?