Steam and hot-water pipes are often suffered to remain in contact with wood-work, and frequently packed with charcoal or sawdust to prevent radiation. The foil owing facts illustrate the danger of ...

Some have kindly sent us specimens of the wood, showing its condition after exposure for a considerable time to the action of the heat from steam pipes. Should the article in question lead to a ...

Instead, it's drawing a feed of blistering, high-pressure, vaporized water from a century-old loop of steam pipes that runs beneath the city's streets. The steam loops are a relic of the 19th ...