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Show MODERN HEATfNG Dirt-Free Home for the Average American Rapidly Approaching The dawn of the dirt-free, dust-free dust-free home for the home owners of the nation, which will relieve the average housewife of endless hours of drudgery, Is rapidly approaching. approach-ing. The building Industry reports that home builders In all parts of the country are not only installing air purifying devices to remove dust particles, but also are concealing and, of course, a smattering of air conditioning. What Is it for which heating experts ex-perts have been searching all this time since the fall of Rome? To tell the truth, nobody was doing much searching at all In the thousand years Immediately after Rome's eclipse. The fireplace served quite well, with all the functions of the me nesting pipes ana raaiaiors in wails, ceilings and floors. It's a far cry from the days of the 1870's when great-grandfather first Installed a central heating system sys-tem and gave up his attempt to heat his home with fireplaces. Today the American home builder build-er Is taking cognizance of old Roman methods and is using hot water to heat his house and is burying the pipes out of sight and sound. The Greeks may have had a word for It, but the Romans were the ones who pioneered heating practice. Their fabulous baths at Pompeii and Caracalla contained steam rooms, "hot rooms", and "cold rooms", all of which precluded pre-cluded a knowledge of the three basic heating means known today-hot today-hot water, steam and warm air home being done In, over or in front of It until the middle of the 18th century when Benjamin Franklin Invented his stove. This stove, a very neat Invention at the time, was the forerunner of the modern warm air plant. It also was the grand-daddy of all dust dispensers and dehumidifiers. It used a large amount of fuel and gave off a minimum amount of heat. DURING THIS TIME, the use of steam as a heating means also was evolved, first In England then in the United States. It's use followed, naturally enough, the development of the boiler and the radiator. Hot water heating had its start in the chicken coop of one M. Bonnemain In the France 01 1777. Mr. Bonnemain used a crude hot water loop to spur the incubation of chicks. Hot water, off to such a promising start, did not do well in competition with steam, however, until about 1920. Today's homes are no longer uncertain un-certain compromises between heat and dirt, heat and health, and heat and cold. With radiant panels, or with radiators recessed or concealed in walls or baseboards, the full use of the space of the room Is available. avail-able. The air remains cool and sensibly sen-sibly moist, whatever the room temperature tem-perature desired. Proof of the economy and performance per-formance of modern hot water heating heat-ing is its exclusive use In large developments de-velopments like Levittown on Long Island, perhaps the largest heating Installation in the world. Here, forced hot water systems supply heat to the radiant panel floors, and serve year round by furnishing the domestic hot water for baths, kitchens and laundries from the same boilers that heat the homes. The perfection of radiant heating to the installations in general use today, leaves only one uncertainty what now in heating? Where to go, short of atom heat? Home builders build-ers will have to wait and see, but whatever It is it will be good. |