Substantial Collection of B. F. Sturtevant Co. Catalogues, Bulletins, and Application Notes
Boston, Massachusetts / London and Glasgow: B. F. Sturtevant Co. / Sturtevant Engineering Co. 1904-1906. A nice collection of B. F. Sturtevant Co. Catalogs and Application Notes bound together in one physical volume. Cloth bound, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, with leather label on spine incorrectly noting contents as catalogs 100-104 (104 was a typo since the catalogs range from 100 through 140). Ex-lbrary Norwich University Library (marked discarded), presented to the library by Sturtevant. A list of catalogs and page count follows. Original wrappers bound in unless noted, a few markings, titles and cover titles similar unless noted. Most are well illustrated (exceptions are the Walter B. Snow titles which are more application notes).
Catalogue No. 100: "Monogram" Blowers and Exhausters Sixth Edition (cover title): 1904, 48 pages.
Catalogue No 110: The Influence of Mechanical Draft upon the Ultimate Efficiency of Steam Boilers, by Walter B. Snow (fifth edition, 1905, 22 pages, a presentation originally made to the Engineering Society, Dec 1st, 1898).
Catalogue No 101: Steel Plate Planing Mill Exhausters (cover title), sixth edition, 1905, 40 pages.
Catalogue 112: Mechanical Ventilation and Heating by a Forced Circulation of Warm Air, by Walter B. Snow, third edition 1903, 31 pages, originally a lecture delivered at Sibley College, Cornell University Nov. 17, 1899.
Catalog C-113: The Application of Mechanical Draft to Stationary Boilers, by Walter B. Snow, no date, 16 pages.
Catalogue No 114: Sturtevant Dry Kilns (cover title). The Sturtevant Steam Hot Blast Heating & Drying Apparatus & Dry Kilns, second edition,, 1904, 86 pages.
Catalogue No 115: Condensed Catalogue of the Sturtevant ...., Second edition, 1904. 4 x 8 1/2 inches, a pamphlet that includes some portion of the company product line from 13 different catalogs enumerated on the inside front cover. 48 pages.
Catalogue No. 116: Disc and Propeller Fans, Second edition, 1903, 16 pages.
Catalogue No 117: The Sturtevant Electric Motors Generators and Generating Sets, Second edition, 1903, 53 pages.
Catalogue No 118: Steam Host Blast Heating and Drying Apparatus, Second edition, 1902, 54 pages.
Catalogue No 119: The Sturtevant Exhaust Heads & Stream Traps, no date, 8 pages.
Catalogue No 120: The Sturtevant Standard and Pony Economizers, First edition, 1904, 45 pages.
Sturtevant Engineering Series Bulletin 125, Vertical Engines Class V S 5, Dec 1905, 8 pages.
Bulletin 125, Jan 1906, Gas Boosters, 8 pages.
Bulletin 127, Feb 1906, High Pressure Blowers, 8 pages.
Bulletin 128, Feb 1906, Economizers, 8 pages.
Bulletin 129, Mar 1906, Pneumatic Separators, 16 pages.
Catalogue No 130: The Turtevant Economizer: 1906, 45 pages.
Bulletin 131, Apr 1906, Horizontal Engines, 8 pages.
Bulletin 132, Apr 1906, Economizers (in 5 specific locations), 8 pages.
Bulletin 133, Gas Blowers, May 1906, 12 pages.
Bulletin 134, Aug 1906, Steel Pressure Blowers, 16 pages.
Catalogue 135, another condensed catalog this time with parts of 7 other catalogs, in same 1/2 size format.
Bulletin 136, Jul 1906, Monogram Blowers and Exhausters, 16 pages.
Bulletin 137, Jul 1906, The Flinn Steam Trap, 4 pages.
Bulletin 138, Jul 1906, Centrifugal Exhaust Heads, 4 pages.
Bulletin 139, Sept 1906, Generating Sets with Vertical Engines Classes VS2 and VS5, 8 pages.
Catalogue No 140, Sturtevant High Pressure Blowers, 1906, 48 pages. Very Good. Cloth. [27275]
A great research set of catalogues from this company which focused on industrial supply applications.
"The B. F. Sturtevant Company was a Boston-based manufacturer of fans. It became a leader in the manufacture of industrial air cooling and ventilation systems. The company was founded in 1860 in Boston by inventor Benjamin Franklin Sturtevant (1833–1890); the plant was located near the present Government Center area. The company at first manufactured wooden pegs used in shoemaking. The process created much sawdust, and Sturtevant invented a mechanical fan that was effective at keeping the work area sawdust-free. By 1864 Sturtevant was manufacturing the first commercially successful blower, and by 1866 the company employed 50 workers and worked exclusively on making fans. In 1869 the company introduced the "Sturtevant system," still the basis for much interior heating of buildings. Sturtevant adapted hot blast technology for indoor heating, using ductwork to spread the warmed air. In 1876 the company moved its plant to the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, and soon began work with the United States Navy. In 1879, Sturtevant introduced a system for ventilating the hulls of ships. In 1879, Sturtevant supplied the USS Alliance with mechanical draft fans that improved fuel efficiency so much that Navy ships were able to retire their back-up sail systems. After a 1901 fire, the plant was moved to Hyde Park in 1903, into a new ten-building, 20-acre (8.1 ha) facility designed by Lockwood, Greene & Co. It was now the world's largest manufacturer of electrical fans. The company had expanded into industrial ventilation, heating, air conditioning, dust and fume removal, power, drying and vacuum cleaning. In 1906, Sturtevant installed the first industrial air conditioning system at Walter Baker & Company in Dorchester, and, at a Chicago hotel in 1910, the first residential air conditioning system. Beginning In 1911, Sturtevant Manufacturing Co, produced several aircraft engines, before being absorbed by the B. F. Sturtevant Company...In 1945, near the end World War II, Sturtevant was taken over by Westinghouse. " (Wikipedia)
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