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...basement is all the machinery. This consists of a self-operating pump, a boiler and a fan. This latter mixes the cool air with steam and thus provides the room with a moist atmosphere. This fan is called a "Sturtevant blower." There is a duplicate one in Technology. The boiler is of about eight horse power and sixty pounds...
...effort was a complete success simply as a business scheme. The improved buildings are built around a large interior court in such a manner that every room has a window. The buildings are arranged with outside stair cases, to avoid the dangers and discomforts of a huge wooden fire blower in the inside of the house and to give every family the domestic privacy secured by a front door of its own and no connection with the other occupants of the building. The pleasure taken by the by the people in these pleasant apartments is a most encouraging sign. Such...
...paid to the heating and ventilation of the building, some new apparatus being made in this direction. The temperature in each room is regulated by dampers worked by compressed air, which in turn are governed by electricity, so that the temperature is controlled automatically and kept constant. A large blower in the basement delivers air to the different rooms at the rate of 24,000 cubic feet a minute, and is the amount this air is heated which determines the temperature. In this way there is a constant current of fresh air passing through the rooms, and yet their temperature...
...heating of the lower floor is arranged by underlaying the floor with hot water pipes, and by driving the surrounding air by means of a blower through a large number of registers placed in the floor above. The upper stories are heated by air passed over the surface of the steam pipes by a blower...