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20th Century Air Conditioning, 2021
- Contents
- Chapter 01 [Go to Page]
- Alfred R. Wolff [Go to Page]
- Figure 1.1 Alfred Wolff2
- Figure 1.2 Marine cutter Richard Rush6
- Carnegie Hall [Go to Page]
- Figure 1.4 Artist’s impression of the New Music Hall12
- Figure 1.5 Annotated Contemporary Drawing of Carnegie Hall’s Heating and Ventilating Plant15
- Figure 1.6 Ice Rack at Bottom of Air Inlet Shaft18
- The Lenox Lyceum Theatre
- The American Theatre in New York [Go to Page]
- Figure 1.8 Sturtevant Cone Wheel Fan26
- Figure 1.11 Knowles Mushroom Air Diffuser circa 1890
- Tall Buildings
- Cornell Medical College [Go to Page]
- Figure 1.13 Attic Plant Room
- Figure 1.16 Pontifex-Hendrick Advertisement, 189941
- Hanover National Bank [Go to Page]
- Figure 1.18 Hanover National Bank44
- Figure 1.21 New York Stock Exchange Building, 190350
- The New York Stock Exchange [Go to Page]
- Figure 1.22 Henry Torrance, Jr.60
- Heating, Ventilating, and Cooling the Board Room of the New York Stock Exchange [Go to Page]
- Figure 1.23 New York Stock Exchange Basement Heating, Cooling, and Ventilation Plant Room64
- Figure 1.24 the New York Stock Exchange68
- Figure 1.25 Board Room Gallery Glazing72
- The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition [Go to Page]
- Figure 1.28 The Missouri Building82
- Chapter 02 [Go to Page]
- City Pollution—The Impetus for Cleaning Air [Go to Page]
- Air Washer Inventions [Go to Page]
- Figure 2.1 Zellweger Combined Fan and Air Washer12
- Figure 2.3 Acme Air Washer Patent Diagram14
- Willis H. Carrier [Go to Page]
- Figure 2.5 Advertisement for Walter Timmis, New York Times (1908)19
- Figure 2.6 Sackett & Wilhelms Lithographic Printing Factory (1903)20
- Figure 2.7 Willis Carrier (Cornell Year Book 1901)24
- Figure 2.8 Front Page, Heating and Ventilation, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1904)36
- Figure 2.9 Carrier Air Washer, Diagram from Patent Application, 190438
- Figure 2.12 Carrier Differential Thermostat51
- Air Conditioning— Stuart W. Cramer [Go to Page]
- Figure 2.14 Stuart W. Cramer56
- Figure 2.15 Cramer’s Humidifier in a Spinning Room60
- Figure 2.16 A Silk Mill Installation from Carrier’s 1908 Air Conditioning Brochure63
- Courtesy Carrier Corporation
- Chapter 03 [Go to Page]
- The Larkin Administrative Building [Go to Page]
- Figure 3.1 One of the Four “Air Purifying and Cooling Devices”9
- Courtesy Jack Quinan
- Figure 3.2 Kroeschell Advertisement, Ice and Refrigeration, June 189911
- Figure 3.3 Layout of Plant and Ducts in Basement12
- Courtesy Jack Quinan
- Rapid Adoption of Air Washers—Theatres [Go to Page]
- Figure 3.4 McCreery Air Washer25
- Figure 3.6 An Example of the Amount of Dirt Caught by an Air Washer29
- Figure 3.7 Webster Air Washer37
- Air Washers for Comfort Cooling [Go to Page]
- Figure 3.10 Braemer’s hygrometric chart40
- Air Washers and Surface Cooling— Fred Wittenmeier [Go to Page]
- The Congress Hotel, Chicago [Go to Page]
- Figure 3.11 Gold Room, Congress Hotel
- Figure 3.12 Ground Floor Plan, Congress Hotel47
- Figure 3.13 Congress Hotel Cooling Plant, Pompeian Room53
- The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago [Go to Page]
- Figure 3.14 CO2 Compressors, Blackstone Hotel62
- The Science of Air Washers and Humidity Control [Go to Page]
- The Vento Heating Coil [Go to Page]
- Figure 3.16 Otto Armspach81
- Otto Armspach [Go to Page]
- Figure 3.17 Hill’s Synthetic Chart83
- Carrier Engineering Corporation
- The ASHVE Research Facility
- Chapter 04 [Go to Page]
- Nickelodeons and Silent Movies [Go to Page]
- Figure 4.1 Grand Moving Picture Theatre Explosion
- Nickelodeons and Health [Go to Page]
- Figure 4.2 San Francisco Call Article on Ventilation Requirements in Nickelodeons6
- Figure 4.4 Castle Theatre’s “Superior Ventilation”
- The Roaring 20s— Mechanical Cooling in Theatres [Go to Page]
- Fred Wittenmeier—Cooling Chicago’s Movie Theatres [Go to Page]
- Figure 4.6 Riviera Advertisement Promoting “Air Refrigeration”22
- Figure 4.8 Wittenmeier Advertisement (1920)27
- Figure 4.9 Wittenmeier’s Temperature Measurements at the Riviera Theatre31
- Tivoli Theatre, Chicago
- Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis, MN [Go to Page]
- Figure 4.10 Artist’s Impression of the New Theatre in Minneapolis (1921)
- Downflow Heating, Cooling, and Ventilating Systems [Go to Page]
- Figure 4.13 Section through Grauman’s Metropolitan Theatre Roof Showing Heating and Cooling Plant44
- McVickers Theatre, Chicago [Go to Page]
- Figure 4.14 Advertisement of the McVickers Theatre 48
- The Science of Comfort [Go to Page]
- Figure 4.15 A Representative Group of the 130 Observers from the U.S. Bureau of Mines, 192250
- Figure 4.16 Sample Results to Determine Equivalent Comfort Conditions51
- Figure 4.17 Comfort Zone (Humans at Rest)53
- Carrier’s Centrifugal Refrigeration Machine [Go to Page]
- Figure 4.18 Taylor Separation Chamber62
- Figure 4.20 Three Carrier 75-ton Units at the Stephen F. Whitman and Sons’ Philadelphia Candy Plant65
- Lewis and the Energy Saving Bypass Method [Go to Page]
- Figure 4.22 Evolution of Lewis’s Bypass System
- Exporting Air Conditioning [Go to Page]
- Figure 4.23 Carrier Centrifugal Machine, Carlton Theatre, 1927
- Courtesy CIBSE Heritage Group
- BBC Broadcasting House [Go to Page]
- Figure 4.24 Carrier Centrifugal Chiller (200 ton) at the BBC Broadcasting House76
- Courtesy Carrier Corporation
- 1929 Sydney State Theatre [Go to Page]
- Figure 4.25 Sydney State Theatre, Original Refrigeration Machine
- Courtesy John Gibson
- Figure 4.26 State Theatre Refrigeration Machine Nameplate
- Courtesy John Gibson
- Chapter 05 [Go to Page]
- The New Madison Square Garden, New York
- Air-Conditioning Multistory Buildings
- The Milam Building, San Antonio [Go to Page]
- Figure 5.2 Milam Building, October 192713
- Figure 5.3 Milam Building Typical Upper Floor Plan14
- Figure 5.4 Milam Building Original Glazed Office Door with Exhaust Louver17
- Union Trust Building, Detroit [Go to Page]
- Figure 5.6 Cross section of Union Trust Building20
- Figure 5.7 Ceiling Duct Layout for Typical Union Trust Office Floor21
- Figure 5.8 Holes in Beams for Ducts22
- Figure 5.9 Plan of Union Trust Floor Air-Conditioning Unit24
- Le Corbusier’s Alternative Method of Air Conditioning: L’aire Ponctuel
- The PSFS Building, Philadelphia [Go to Page]
- Figure 5.10 PSFS Building in 1997
- Figure 5.12 Corridor Return Air Duct, Louver to Fan Room on Right
- Rockefeller Center, New York [Go to Page]
- Figure 5.14 Diagrammatic Section of Air-Conditioning System A in the Music Hall45
- Figure 5.15 Proposed Ground Plan of Rockefeller Center, 193451
- Figure 5.16 Wallingford Steel Co. Office Building, 193462
- Windowless Buildings and Air Conditioning (1934–1939) [Go to Page]
- The Hershey Office Building [Go to Page]
- Figure 5.17 Hershey Building Electric Weather Man69
- Windowless Buildings with Glass Block Walls [Go to Page]
- Figure 5.18 Detroit Edison Company Service Building72
- Johnson’s Wax Administration Building [Go to Page]
- Figure 5.20 Air Washer Plant Beneath “nostrils”80
- Figure 5.21 Buried Heating Pipes83
- Figure 5.22 Private office in Johnson’s Wax Building
- Figure 5.23 Johnson’s Wax Great Work Room
- Figure 5.1 Madison Square Garden, 1925
- Courtesy Carrier Corporation
- Chapter 06 [Go to Page]
- The Advent of Fan-Coil Unit Room Coolers and Air Conditioners [Go to Page]
- Figure 6.1 Kramer Room-Cooling Apparatus
- Figure 6.2 Schutz Cooling Device
- The “Split” Air Conditioner
- Fan-Coil Units [Go to Page]
- Figure 6.4 Neiman Marcus Unit Coolers12
- Chicago Heat Waves and Unit Air Conditioners [Go to Page]
- The Tribune Tower [Go to Page]
- Figure 6.5 Tribune Building in 201919
- Figure 6.6 New Room Unit Ready to Be Placed in Position of the Original Steam Radiator32
- Figure 6.7 Westinghouse Room Unit Chassis35
- Steam-Jet Refrigeration [Go to Page]
- Figure 6.9 Steam-Jet Refrigeration Principle
- The First “Fully Air-Conditioned Hotel” [Go to Page]
- Figure 6.10 Steam Jet Venturis Being Delivered to the Tribune Tower39
- Galson’s De La Vergne Heat-Pump Unit Conditioner [Go to Page]
- Figure 6.11 Galson’s De La Vergne Heat-Pump Unit Conditioner
- Carrier Joins the Trend
- Home Air Conditioners
- Induction Unit Systems [Go to Page]
- Figure 6.14 Carrier Low-Velocity Weathermaster Unit65
- Air-Conditioning The Pentagon [Go to Page]
- Figure 6.15 Office in Pentagon with Weathermaster Unit (circled)71
- High-Velocity Induction Units [Go to Page]
- Figure 6.16 Conduit Weathermaster Induction Unit74
- Courtesy Carrier Corporation
- Figure 6.18 Statler Hotel Primary Air-Handling Plant77
- Chapter 07 [Go to Page]
- Belluschi’s Design Study for an Office Building in 194X
- The Equitable Building, Portland [Go to Page]
- J. Donald Kroeker—Engineer [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.1 The Equitable Building—Glazed Façade
- Mechanical Systems [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.3 Typical Floor Mechanical Plant in the Equitable Building
- Figure 7.4 Mechanical Room, Trane Advertisement, 194821
- Figure 7.6 Air-Cooled Refrigeration Machines (on Roof) that Replaced the Equitable’s Heat Pump Cooling in 1999
- Double Duct (Multizone Air Conditioning) [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.7 Prudential Building, Los Angeles, 195028
- High-Velocity Induction Unit Air Conditioning
- United Nations Secretariat Building, New York [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.8 United Nations Secretariat Building, New York36
- Lever House, New York [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.9 Lever House, New York
- Radiant Heating and Cooling [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.11 All-aluminum ALCOA Building, Pittsburgh46
- Manufacturers Life Building, Toronto [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.12 1935 Advertisement for Air Conditioning with Panel Heating And Cooling49
- Shell Centre, London [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.13 Extruded Aluminum Ceiling Panels Including Light Troffer53
- Prudential Building, Chicago
- Dual-Duct High-Velocity Air Conditioning [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.14 Inland Steel Building (Far Right) with Service Tower (Center)
- Inland Steel Building, Chicago [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.16 Supply Fan in Inland Steel Building Basement
- Air Conditioning Older Buildings
- New York Life Building, New York [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.18 Inland Steel Building Original Chiller, Operational in 2001
- Empire State Building, New York
- High-Velocity Air Conditioning in Europe [Go to Page]
- Pirelli Tower, Milan [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.19 Advertisement for Marlo Central Station Air-Conditioning Units69
- Figure 7.20 Typical Floor Plan Showing Ductwork in Pirelli Tower71
- Exporting the Curtain Wall Style [Go to Page]
- Figure 7.20 Pirelli Tower, Milan72
- Chapter 08 [Go to Page]
- Rinascente Department Store, Rome [Go to Page]
- Figure 8.1 Partial Above-Ceiling Plan Showing Rinascente Dual-duct Air Conditioning
- Air-Conditioned Buildings in the United Kingdom [Go to Page]
- UK Atomic Energy Authority Building, London
- CIS Building, Manchester [Go to Page]
- Figure 8.2 CIS Building Open Plan Office, 2001
- Figure 8.3 Weathermaster Induction Unit, Outlet Grille Removed
- Figure 8.9 Svenska Fläktfabriken Induction Unit with Access Panel Removed
- Millbank Tower, London
- Robinson Building, Bristol [Go to Page]
- Figure 8.11 UniTrane Induction Patent Diagram16
- Variable Air Volume (VAV) [Go to Page]
- Figure 8.13 Cross-Section Diagram of Moduline Unit 37A19
- Courtesy Carrier Corporation
- Perimeter VAV, Toronto [Go to Page]
- Figure 8.14 Shuper’s Perimeter VAV Terminal22
- Induction Unit Air Conditioning [Go to Page]
- Figure 8.15 Richard J. Daley Center
- The All-Electric Skyscraper [Go to Page]
- The John Hancock Center [Go to Page]
- Figure 8.17 Original York Chiller at Richard J. Daley Center, 2001
- VAV Exported [Go to Page]
- Figure 8.19 John Hancock Center, Chicago
- Figure 8.21 John Hancock Center 1620 kW Electrode Boilers
- Figure 8.22 IBM Office Building, Greenock, Scotland, VAV System Schematic30
- Chapter 09 [Go to Page]
- The 1973 Oil Crisis and Energy Conservation
- Thermal Energy Storage [Go to Page]
- Ice Thermal Energy Storage [Go to Page]
- Figure 9.1 Ice Accumulator Evaporator, Ice Store, 193912
- Phase-Change Thermal Energy Storage
- The Attractions of Off-Peak Electricity Rates [Go to Page]
- Figure 9.2 Exploded View, CALMAC Ice Bank17
- State of Illinois Center [Go to Page]
- Figure 9.4 State of Illinois Center
- Lake and Aquifer Thermal Storage [Go to Page]
- Figure 9.5 Lake Thermal Storage, HFC Trust Building, 1988
- Figure 9.6 HFC Trust Thermal Flywheel Circuit Diagram24
- Encapsulated Ice Storage [Go to Page]
- Figure 9.7 Cristopia Ice Balls
- Figure 9.8 Encapsulated Ice Tanks
- Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) [Go to Page]
- The Scroll Compressor
- VRF Systems [Go to Page]
- Figure 9.10 Young’s Diagram Showing Compression in Scroll Compressors
- Figure 9.11 Three-Pipe VRF System32
- Figure 9.12 Outdoor VRF Units
- Building Mass Thermal Storage
- Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage [Go to Page]
- Figure 9.14 Gateway 2, The Atrium
- Figure 9.15 Gateway 2: Predicted Airflow Patterns, Summer and Winter
- Figure 9.16 SAS Headquarters— Indoor Street
- Chilled Beams
- Chapter 10 [Go to Page]
- Green Buildings
- Environmental Assessment Methods [Go to Page]
- Figure 10.1 Cover of First BREEAM Environmental Assessment Guide
- Low-Energy Cooling—Demonstration Projects [Go to Page]
- Figure 10.2 Dow Chemical Europe Headquarters in Horgen, Switzerland, 1991
- Mixed Mode [Go to Page]
- Figure 10.5 Photovoltaic Panels, Dow Chemical Europe Headquarters
- Figure 10.6 Mixed-Mode Concept, Barclaycard headquarters18
- Prototype Low-Energy Buildings versus Commercial Realty [Go to Page]
- Figure 10.8 Automatic Roof Vents, Barclaycard Headquarters 2020
- Commerzbank Tower [Go to Page]
- Figure 10.10 Chiller Energy Efficiency Improvement, 1970 to 201024
- Figure 10.12 Woolworth Building, Built 1914
- References
- Index [Go to Page]