Central Heating Collection

The British Army Post-Office, Constantinople, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The British Army Post-Office, Constantinople, 1856. Crimean War: The staff employed consists of a postmaster and three assistant postmasters; eight clerks

Soldiers Reading-Room, St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Soldiers Reading-Room, St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, 1856. The annual return of between three and four thousand soldiers from India and the British Colonies - who, either from impaired health

Vois comme ils m'avaient abimé... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Vois comme ils m'avaient abime... 19th century. Landlords and tenants. Property owner: Look how they've ruined my walls with [the smoke from] their fireplaces - tenants shouldn't be

Victoria-Street, Westminster, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Victoria-Street, Westminster, 1854. New housing in London:..to enable families of all sizes to have apartments suited to their number

Roman Remains Discovered at Lymne, Kent, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Roman Remains Discovered at Lymne, Kent, 1850. Archaeological dig at Lympne in Kent: An extensive hypocaust ran under the floor

Flue-Tiles, Quern, and Other Roman Articles Found at Lymne, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Flue-Tiles, Quern, and Other Roman Articles Found at Lymne, 1850. Archaeological finds at Lympne in Kent:..square hollow flue-tiles which ran up the sides of the apartments

Paris Demolitions - heating-room, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Paris Demolitions - the Hotel des Haricots, or prison of the National Guard of Paris: heating-room, 1864. Interior of '...the Hotel des Haricots

Portable School, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Portable School, 1857. The whole is constructed of timber, and capable of holding 100 children. A composition has been applied to the exterior, which renders it quite weatherproof

Elderly lady who lives on Lamont Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Elderly lady who lives on Lamont Street, N.W

Mrs. Hull and corner of her one-room basement dugout, Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939
Mrs. Hull and corner of her one-room basement dugout. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon. [Note L. & H. Economy stove]

Interior of eastern Oregon one-room county school, Baker County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Interior of eastern Oregon one-room county school. Seven pupils enrolled. 8:45 a.m. Between Pleasant Valley and Durkee, Baker County, Oregon

9: 00 a.m. four pupils attend this day... eastern Oregon county school, Baker County, Oregon, 1939
9:00 a.m. Four pupils attend this day, of the seven who are enrolled at the eastern Oregon county school. Between Pleasant Valley and Durkee, Baker County, Oregon

Kotatsu Dojoji, no. 5 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays, c. 1716 / 35
Kotatsu Dojoji, no. 5 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays, c. 1716/35. Scene from the legend of Musume Dojoji

The Brazier of Elegance and the Bell of Damnation (Fuga hibachi muken no kane), c. 1739/40

Narcissus in Winter, from the series "Choicest Odes upon Flowers of the Four Seasons
Narcissus in Winter, from the series " Choicest Odes upon Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shuku awase, shiki no hana)", c. 1792

The Tough Story - Scene in a Country Tavern, 1837. Creator: William Sidney Mount
The Tough Story - Scene in a Country Tavern, 1837

The Great Exotic Stove at Kew, 1763. Creator: William Chambers
The Great Exotic Stove at Kew, 1763

Central Heating in Britain 1800 Years Ago, c1934. Illustration showing the Roman hypocaust system of whereby burning embers from fires made by slaves were pushed through passages under the floor to

Plan of a Roman hypocaust found on the site of the Coal Exchange, City of London, 1848

Kitchen scene, Warwick, Warwickshire, 1966. Artist: Michael Walters
Kitchen scene, Warwick, Warwickshire, 1966. A housewife attending to the cooking in her new kitchen. The kitchen is the new fitted American style with matching formica fronted doors

New range of central heating boilers, 1965. Artist: Michael Walters
New range of central heating boilers, 1965. In a studio photograph, a model adjusts her new Autostat 502 model central heating boiler from the Victory range of gas fired domestic heating boilers

Roman hypocaust, Salamis, North Cyprus. Archaeologists have found remains at Salamis dating back to the 11th century BC. Evidence of Phoenician and Assyrian settlement has been found

Proposed method of warming and ventilating a house, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson

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