Radiant Heating Cooling Snow Melting T Napier Adlam 1949 2nd Ed HVAC
$125.00
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Vintage HVAC, architectural engineering, and building-technology reference devoted to radiant heating, radiant cooling, infrared heating, and snow-melting systems.
This book is especially suited to HVAC engineers, architects, mechanical contractors, historic-building specialists, restoration professionals, engineering students, and collectors of important early technical literature. It offers more than obsolete specifications: it preserves a formative period when radiant climate control was being transformed from an experimental concept into a practical system for homes, commercial buildings, factories, schools, and outdoor surfaces.
For the thoughtful reader, this volume deepens the understanding of how a building functions as a complete thermal environment. It demonstrates how heat moves through floors, walls, ceilings, pipes, surfaces, and occupied spaces—and how engineers learned to control that movement for human comfort. Studying these earlier systems can sharpen the reader’s appreciation of modern radiant floors, hydronic heating, energy-efficient design, thermal comfort, and automated snow-melting installations. It also reveals how many technologies now marketed as modern or environmentally conscious were being carefully calculated and installed more than seventy-five years ago.
Written by consulting engineer T. Napier Adlam and published by The Industrial Press in 1949. This is the stated Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, expanding the original 1947 work.
The book provides a practical examination of American and European methods for designing and installing radiant, panel, and infrared heating systems. It also addresses radiant cooling and snow melting—two subjects that were unusually forward-looking when this edition appeared. Technical material includes step-by-step design procedures, solved engineering problems, working data, mathematical calculations, temperature and performance charts, construction diagrams, piping layouts, floor and ceiling installations, equipment illustrations, photographs of completed buildings, and comparative discussions of different heating methods.
Among the applications shown are embedded floor-heating coils, ceiling and wall panels, radiant pipes for large structures, heated walks and road surfaces, residential installations, commercial buildings, industrial spaces, and architectural projects designed around radiant comfort. The combination of historical photographs and detailed engineering diagrams makes the book useful both as a technical reference and as a visual record of postwar building innovation.
Because engineering standards and building codes have changed since 1949, this volume should be treated as a historical and technical reference rather than a substitute for current codes or professional design requirements.
Original textured red hardcover with black-and-gold cover and spine labels. The binding appears firm, with all photographed pages securely attached. Covers show light shelf wear, including minor rubbing and corner wear. Page edges display expected age toning and some light spotting. A previous owner’s name is stamped on the upper page edge. Interior pages shown are clean and highly readable, with no observed highlighting or extensive handwritten notes. No dust jacket is present. Please review all photographs for the exact condition.
SKU D-4
Radiant Heating Cooling Snow Melting T Napier Adlam 1949 2nd Ed HVAC
$125.00
This book is especially suited to HVAC engineers, architects, mechanical contractors, historic-building specialists, restoration professionals, engineering students, and collectors of important early technical literature. It offers more than obsolete specifications: it preserves a formative period when radiant climate control was being transformed from an experimental concept into a practical system for homes, commercial buildings, factories, schools, and outdoor surfaces.
For the thoughtful reader, this volume deepens the understanding of how a building functions as a complete thermal environment. It demonstrates how heat moves through floors, walls, ceilings, pipes, surfaces, and occupied spaces—and how engineers learned to control that movement for human comfort. Studying these earlier systems can sharpen the reader’s appreciation of modern radiant floors, hydronic heating, energy-efficient design, thermal comfort, and automated snow-melting installations. It also reveals how many technologies now marketed as modern or environmentally conscious were being carefully calculated and installed more than seventy-five years ago.
Written by consulting engineer T. Napier Adlam and published by The Industrial Press in 1949. This is the stated Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, expanding the original 1947 work.
The book provides a practical examination of American and European methods for designing and installing radiant, panel, and infrared heating systems. It also addresses radiant cooling and snow melting—two subjects that were unusually forward-looking when this edition appeared. Technical material includes step-by-step design procedures, solved engineering problems, working data, mathematical calculations, temperature and performance charts, construction diagrams, piping layouts, floor and ceiling installations, equipment illustrations, photographs of completed buildings, and comparative discussions of different heating methods.
Among the applications shown are embedded floor-heating coils, ceiling and wall panels, radiant pipes for large structures, heated walks and road surfaces, residential installations, commercial buildings, industrial spaces, and architectural projects designed around radiant comfort. The combination of historical photographs and detailed engineering diagrams makes the book useful both as a technical reference and as a visual record of postwar building innovation.
Because engineering standards and building codes have changed since 1949, this volume should be treated as a historical and technical reference rather than a substitute for current codes or professional design requirements.
Original textured red hardcover with black-and-gold cover and spine labels. The binding appears firm, with all photographed pages securely attached. Covers show light shelf wear, including minor rubbing and corner wear. Page edges display expected age toning and some light spotting. A previous owner’s name is stamped on the upper page edge. Interior pages shown are clean and highly readable, with no observed highlighting or extensive handwritten notes. No dust jacket is present. Please review all photographs for the exact condition.
SKU D-4