The heading radiator. Between utility and aesthetics Authors Francesc X. Barca Salom Institut d'Estudis Catalans Keywords: heating by hot water or steam, radiators, finned tubes Abstract In the mid-nineteenth century, when centralized heating began to be applied in some buildings using steam as a fluid, the radiator was used as an element of heat emission at the site. The centralized heating system requires a generator, which is usually a boiler where water or steam, is heated. This fluid, circulating through a pipe circuit, must transport the heat to the place where it must be heated. To facilitate the transfer of this heat to the air, one emitter would be necessary. In the first years of this technology two types of emitters were used: the fins tubes and the radiators. In this paper we will try to see what the origin and evolution of radiators was as well as the aesthetic and hygiene concerns that were generated because of its application.Key words: heating by hot water or steam, radiators, finned tubes Author Biography Francesc X. Barca Salom, Institut d'Estudis Catalans Downloads PDF (Català) Issue Vol. 12-13 : 2019 Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.SCHCT declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
