INDEX
- A
- Acetylene, gas burner, 302
- gas machine, the Colt, 300
- machines, 295
- generators, types of, 297
- stoves, 304
- Air conditioning, 240
- cooling plants, 244
- discharged by a flue, 225
- eliminators, 35, 36
- properties of, table, 199
- tester, the Wolpert, 233
- valves, 19
- Alcohol, sad irons, 289
- table stoves, 293
- Annunciators, 346
- Anthracite, graphitic, 186
- Atmospheric humidity, 196
- B
- Backventing, of plumbing, 105
- Bathroom, 97
- Bathtubs, 98
- fixtures for, 100
- Bibb, compression flange, 89
- flange, 89
- Fuller, 89
- hose, 89
- lever handle, 90
- screw, 89
- self-closing, 90
- solder, 89
- wash-tray, 91
- Boiler, at end of season, 79
- cast-iron, 19, 20, 38
- cylindrical form of, 38
- house heating, 19, 24
- rules for management of, 77
- sheet-metal, 19
- Boiler, steam, rules for management of, 78
- the house-heating steam, 19
- Boyle’s law, definition, 161, 272
- Briquettes, 189
- British thermal units, 4
- for one cent, 190
- B.t.u., 2, 32, 182, 185
- Burglar alarms, 344
- Buzzers, 344
- C
- Candle, foot, 313
- Hefner, 310
- power, 310
- horizontal, 310
- spherical, 311
- Cellar drain, 84
- Cell, Pilot, storage battery, 370
- Cesspools, 169
- Charcoal, 188
- Check-draft damper, 24
- Chimney flue, the right, 79
- Chimneys, “smokey,” 80, 81
- Cisterns, filters for, 152, 153
- galvanized iron tanks as, 152
- rain-water, 151
- wooden, 152
- Clinkers, 72, 73
- Close-nipples, 28
- Coal, 182
- anthracite or hard, 183, 193
- bituminous or soft, 184
- burning soft, 75
- calorific value of typical American, 192, 193
- cannel, 186
- coking, 184
- comparative value of, 189
- free burning, 75
- Coal, fusing-coking, 75
- grades of soft, 184
- pea size, 76
- price of, 190, 191
- semi-bituminous, 186, 193
- Cocks, basin, 92
- bibb, 88
- corporation, 87
- curb, 87
- Fuller, 91
- bibb, 89
- repairs for, 91
- pantry, 93
- sill, 93
- stop and drain, 88
- stop and waste, 87
- Code, national electric, 371
- Coke, 76, 188
- gas, 188
- Column, the water, 22
- Condensation, water of, 6, 10, 11, 15, 35
- Conductors, 374
- Cord, lamp, 363
- portable, 363
- Current, alternating, 332
- direct, 332
- D
- Damper, ash-pit, 59
- check-draft, 24, 67, 69, 70
- direct-draft, 59, 61, 67
- regulator, 59, 60
- combined thermostat and, 67
- for hot-water furnaces, 61, 62
- for steam boiler, 60, 78
- Design, heating plant, 44
- Devining rod, 137
- Dew-point, 209
- to determine the, 212
- Dim-a-lite, 323
- Door bells, 342
- Draft, economy of good furnace, 70
- hand, regulation, 59
- induced, 69
- Drip-cock, 23
- Dry cells, 354
- E
- Electric annunciators, 346
- batteries, 354
- battery formation, 358
- testers, 360
- burglar alarms, 344
- buzzers, 344
- conductors, 362
- door bell, 342
- dry cell, 355
- flat-iron, 326
- fuse plugs, 334, 337
- generating plants, 363
- heaters, 338
- heating devices, 305
- lamp cord, 362
- lamps, Gem, 306
- incandescent, 306
- motors, 332
- panel, 336
- range, 340
- signals, 341
- stoves, 339
- table pushes, 346
- toaster, 330
- Electrical measurements, units of, 317
- Electricity, 305
- Eliminator, air, 35, 36
- Evaporation as a cooling agent, 243
- F
- Filaments, carbon, 308
- incandescent lamp, 306, 307
- tungsten, 307
- Fire-box, 19, 20, 54
- Firing, first day, 73
- in moderate weather, 74
- in severe weather, 74
- night, 72
- Fixtures, bathroom, 105
- kitchen and laundry, 94
- Flat-iron, electric, 326
- Flues, furnace, 55
- Flush tanks, 110
- details of construction, 112, 113
- low down, 111
- Foot-candle, 313
- Frost prediction, 212
- Fuels, comparative value of coal to other, 189
- danger from gaseous and liquid, 294
- heating values of domestic, 252
- moisture in, 194
- Furnace, cast-iron, 54
- firing, general rules for, 70
- times of day for, 72
- location of, 54
- the hot-air, 51, 52
- construction of, 52
- Furnace-gas leaks, 54
- Fuse plugs, 334
- G
- Gage, Bourdon type of, 23
- electrified Bourdon spring pressure, 36
- glass, 22, 40, 161, 162
- steam, 22
- water, 22
- Gas, acetylene, machines, 295
- all-oil water, 251
- Blau, 251
- burner, Bunsen, 275
- open-flame, 278
- coal, 250
- lamps, mantle, 274, 276, 277
- lighters, 302
- measurements of, 253
- meter dials, reading of, 255, 256
- meters, 254
- prepayment, 256
- Pintsch, 251
- service rules, 256, 257
- ranges, 258
- water, 251
- Gases, heating values of, 252
- Gasoline, 250
- Beaumé test of, 261
- Gasoline, boulevard lamp, 287
- central generator plants for use of, 282
- cold process system of lighting with, 264, 265
- gas lamps, 286
- gravity test of, 262
- hollow-wire system of lighting and heating with, 269
- lamps, inverted mantle, 279
- portable, 280, 281
- lighting and heating with, 259, 264
- regulation and sale of, 261
- sad irons, 289
- stoves, burners for, 288
- Gate valve, 94
- Globe valve, 93
- angle, 94
- Grate surface, 53
- Gravity system, low pressure, 6, 15
- H
- Heaters, combination hot-air and hot-water, 56
- direct and indirect, 28
- furnace hot-water, 122
- instantaneous, 123
- tank, 121
- wash boilers, 96
- Heating, C. A. Dunham’s system of vapor, 34, 35
- direct indirect, 30
- hot-water, 26
- indirect method of, 29, 30
- low pressure system of, 5, 6
- overhead or drop system of steam, 14
- system of hot water, 44
- plants, management of, 70
- separate return system of steam, 13
- single pipe system of steam, 6, 12, 15
- steam, 26
- surface of furnaces, 56
- Heating, radiators, 26
- two pipe system of steam, 6, 10, 11, 15
- Heat, of vaporization, 2
- specific, 37
- Hot-air furnace, 61
- Hot-water heaters, 38
- House drain, 82
- Humidifying apparatus, 215
- plants, 242
- Humidity, absolute, 196
- atmospheric, 196
- control, 244
- of the air, 196
- relative, 197, 204
- Hydraulic ram, 154
- double acting, 157
- single acting, 155
- Hydrometer, storage battery, 368
- Hygrodeik, 206
- Hygrometer, 204
- dial, 208
- I
- Illumination, 313
- intensity of, 314
- quantity of, 314
- K
- Kerosene, 263
- legal tests for, 263
- L
- Lamp, base, the Edison, 311
- cord, 363
- labels, 312
- Lamps, boulevard, 287
- carbon filament, 311
- central-generator gas, 286
- daylight, electric, 324
- gas-filled electric, 324
- incandescent electric, 306
- mantle, 276
- inverted-mantle gasoline, 279
- Lamps, Mazda, 310
- miniature electric, 320, 325
- portable, gasoline, 280
- tantalum, 306
- tungsten-filament, 306
- turn-down electric, 321
- Lights, drop, 383
- flash, 326
- pilot, 383
- Lignite, 186
- Lumen, 313
- O
- Outlet boxes, 373
- Overflow pipe, 45
- Overheated water, 47
- P
- Peat, 187
- Pilot light, 375
- Pipes, covering, 33
- eliminator, 36
- flow, 57
- openings stopped, 113
- overflow, 40, 41
- return, 6, 10, 57
- supply, 6, 10
- Plant, hot-water heating, 37
- steam heating, 1, 5
- Plug receptacles, 378
- Plumbers friend, 113
- Plumbing, 81
- rough, 82
- Pneumatic motor valve, 237
- radiator valve, 237
- Polluted water, 134
- Pollution of wells, 134
- Pressure, absolute, 4
- gage, 4
- tank, 162
- vapor, 35, 36
- Properties of steam, 3
- Psychrometer, 207
- Pump, force, the, 146
- lift, the, 144
- tank, 146
- Pumps, 144
- chain, 151
- deep well, 150
- for driven wells, 150
- priming of, 145
- well, 148
- wooden, 148
- R
- Radiating surface, 1, 21, 22, 27
- Radiators, air vent on, 77
- connections, 10, 47
- corner, 28
- finishings, 31
- forms of, 26
- hot-water, 28, 49
- rules for proportioning, 24, 25
- single column, 28
- pipe, 10, 15
- three column, 28
- to control, 79
- wall, 28
- water-filled, 15
- Range boilers, 115
- blow-off cock, 118
- double heater connections for, 119
- excessive pressure in, 117
- horizontal, 119
- location, 118
- Reflectors, 315
- choice of, 316
- focusing, 316
- holoplane, 315
- intensive, 316
- Registers, rules for proportioning, 55
- Regulator, combined thermostat and damper, 67
- damper, 59, 60, 67
- draft, 24
- temperature, 59, 67
- Riser, 6, 10
- S
- Sad irons, alcohol, 292
- gasoline, 289
- Safety valve, 24, 44, 47, 67
- Septic tank, 170
- and anaerobic filter, 174
- automatic siphon for, 176
- concrete, 179
- limit of efficiency of, 178
- Universal Portland Cement Co., 179
- with sand-bed filter, 171
- Sewage, 168
- disposal, 168
- purification, 168
- Sewer, 82, 85
- gas,114
- Short circuiting, 334
- Sitz bath, 98
- Slicing bar, 72
- Slugging, 15
- Soil pipe, 84, 107
- Soot pocket, 80
- Stand pipe eliminator, 36
- Steam temperatures, 4
- Stop-cock, 46
- Stove, acetylene, 292
- gasoline, 288
- putty, 54
- Surface, grate, 53
- air-heating, 53
- Surging, 15
- Switch, automatic door, 378
- heater, 380
- local, 382
- service, 381
- System, high-pressure hot-water, 41
- low-pressure gravity, 6
- hot-water, 38
- overhead or drop, 14
- separate return, 13
- single pipe, 8
- two pipe, 10
- T
- Table, air discharged from flues, 229
- required for ventilation, 220
- calorific value of American coals, 192
- Table, dew-point, 210, 211
- frost prediction, 214
- heating values of coals, 93
- gases, 252
- wood, 187, 188
- hot-air furnaces, 51
- registers, 51
- lumens per watt, 314
- prices of fuels, 191
- properties of air, 199
- steam, 3
- radiators, sizes of, 27
- record of evaporation from hot-air furnace, 217
- relative heating values of domestic fuel, 252
- humidity, 202, 203
- sizes of hard coal, 183
- heating mains, 26
- hot-air furnaces, 51
- soft coal, 184
- thermal units for one cent, 190
- Table pushes, 346
- Tank heaters, 121
- expansion, 38, 40, 41, 45, 46, 47
- Telephones, intercommunicating, 340
- Temperature regulation, 59
- hand, 59
- pneumatic, 234
- Thermostats, 62, 67
- controllers, 62, 63
- electric, 62
- motor, 64
- National Regulator Co., 235, 236
- pneumatic, 62
- time attachment, 63
- Transformers, bell-ringing, 347
- lamp, 316
- Traps, Bower, 103
- clean sweep, 103
- drum, 103, 105
- for bathroom fixture, 102, 103
- inside, 83
- non-siphoning, 105
- outside, 83
- sewer for house drains, 82
- siphoning, 106
- S, 103, 104
- Try-cocks, 22, 23
- Tungsten, 307
- U
- Union joint, 18
- V
- Vacuum, 5
- Valve, air, 79
- angle, 18
- check, 42, 43
- definition of, 88, 93
- disc, 19
- globe, 93
- hot-water radiator, 49
- Ohio hot-water, 49
- on cellar mains, 78
- safety, 24, 44, 47
- steam radiator, 18
- stem, 19
- Valves, definition of, 93
- globe, 93
- Vaporization, heat of, 2
- Ventilation, 219
- apparatus, 239
- by direct method of heating, 31
- by indirect method of heating, 31
- cost of, 230
- De Chaumont standard of, 219
- mechanical, 237
- of dwellings, 222, 223, 224
- Plenum method of, 239
- quantity of air required for, 220
- Vents, air, 16, 45, 48, 49
- automatic air, 16
- hot-water air, 50
- Monash No. 16 air, 16
- pipe, 83
- radiator, 16
- sewer, 85
- the Allen float, 16
- Voltage variation, effect of, 321
- W
- Wash stands and lavatories, 101
- Waste stack, 84, 85
- Water, ammonia in, 130
- analyses, 126
- artesian, 128
- back, 115
- chlorine in, 133
- closets, 108
- siphon-jet, 108
- washdown, 109
- washout, 108
- frost, 115
- hammer, 9, 15
- hardness in, 131
- iron in, 131
- lift, 165
- medical, 128
- of condensation, 11
- organic matter in, 130
- overheated, 121
- Pokegama, 127
- polluted, 133
- river, 127
- seal, 83
- softening with hydrated silicates, 132
- supply, 87, 125
- electric power, 164
- plants, domestic, 158
- gravity, 158
- power, 163
- pressure tank system of, 160
- wind power, 164
- table, 137
- Wattmeter, periodic tests of, 354
- readings, 352
- recording, 350
- state regulation of, 353
- to read the, 350
- Well, the ideal, 140
- Wells, artesian, 140
- bored, 141
- breathing, 143
- cleaning of, 142
- concrete coverings for, 140
- construction of, 138
- curbing of, 136, 140
- cylinders for tubular, 151
- driven, 141
- dug, 139
- flowing, 138
- freezing, 144
- gases in, 142
- open, 139
- peculiarities of, 143
- safe distance in the location of, 135
- selection of the type of, 138
- surface pollution of, 135
- Wiped joints, 107
- Wire annunciator, 353
- Wiring, electric light, 372
- Wood, 187
- heating value of, 187