Home construction and maintenance technical files--heating, 1924-1982.

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Home construction and maintenance technical files--heating, 1924-1982.

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The records document Consumers' Research's testing, research, and projects relating to heating the home. Included are correspondence, notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, photographs, product literature, catalogs, test results, operating manuals, advertisements, and purchase orders. Topics include home fuels, Department of Energy materials, the energy crisis of the 1970s, comparative efficiency of fuels, wood as fuel, coal, synthetic fuels, natural gas, fuel oil, bottled gas, heating apparatus and methods, fuel saving devices, conversion burners, heating and ventilation equipment, thermostats, heat pumps, warm air heaters, radiators, electric heating, coal furnaces, oil burners, gas furnaces, portable space or room heaters, solar heating, and electricity rates. Other subjects included are standards and specifications, product hazards, and test methods.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...