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ENGINEERS OF HUMAN COMFORT The Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Engineers through thenwork and research bring to our homes, schools, offices, factories, theaters, hospitals and other public buildings in both summer and winter, that climate best suited to our comfort and health. These men realize the basic importance of heating and ventilating as a primary element in the well being of civilized mankind, living and working mostly indoors. They are truly Engineers of Human Comfort. Started in 1894, by a small but progressive group, The American Soci-. ety of Heating and Ventilating Engineers now numbers over 8500 members, whose express purpose is to improve the Art through the inter change of ideas and the stimulation of scientific research and invention. The Society membership now includes engineers, educators, scientists, physicians, architects, contractors, and leaders of industry. Membership consists of Charter, Honorary, Life, Presidential, Member, Associate, Jun ior, Affiliate and Student grades. The management of the Society is entrusted to .4 Officers and a Council of 13 elected members. Continuity of policy is insured by electing 4 men annually for a 3-year term and retaining the retiring president on the Council for 1 year. Two national meetings are held each year--the Annual Meeting during January or February, and the Semi-Annual Meeting usually in June or July. The three major activities of the Society are: Membership service, Publication, and Research, the record of its accomplishments being per manently recorded in the annual Transactions. Headquarters of the Society are maintained at 62 Worth St., New York 13, N. Y., and its research laboratory, devoted to the study of funda mental principles of heating, ventilating and air conditioning, is located at 7218 Euclid Ave., Cleveland 3, Ohio. In September, 1894, a little group of nationally known engineers, educa tors and manufacturers gathered in New York and agreed that the great art of heating and ventilating deserved and required recognition as an essential, distinctive and highly specialized division of modem engineering. These keen, alert, progressive men knew that the methods and equip ment of their day could be improved, even beyond their own vision, if all the personalities striving for such improvement could be welded into one organized cooperative group imbued with the same ideals and aiming for the same goal. They therefore formed themselves into the nucleus of such an organization and called it The American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers. Foreseeing the need for research they made it one of their first acts to establish a Committee on Standards. That the Charter Members had great faith in their enterprise is evident, although little did they dream that progress would be so rapid in their profession. During the intervening years, since that little group of 75 pioneers un furled the banner of The American Society of Heating and Ventilat- 1558 , ing Engineers, thousands of tlic real leaders of thought and action in heating, ventilating, and air conditioning have gathered about that stand ard and carried it proudly before them far along the way of outstanding accomplishment. They may be identified among engineering groups by the distinctive emblem which was adopted by the Charter Members. The first Annual Meeting was held in New York, N. Y., January 22-24, 1895, and. the organization was incorporated that same year, under the laws of the State. A. S. H. V. E. RESEARCH LABORATORY Since 1919 The American Society op Heating and Ventilating Engineers has maintained a permanent research stafF and, since 1946, its own research laboratory at 7218 Euclid Ave., Cleveland 3, Ohio, devoted to the study of fundamental problems in the field of heating, ventilating and air conditioning. In addition to work at the Society's laboratory, a substantial part of the research program has been carried on through the medium of cooperative agreements with leading educational institu tions of the United States and Canada. All research activities are planned and supervised by the Committee on Research of 15 elected members, assisted by various Technical Advisory Committees of the Society. Since 1919, close to $2,000,000 has been expended on research, which has helped guide the industry to better practice and equipment. Together with the co operating institutions the Society has, during the past year, conducted 34 research projects including work on'Panel Heating and Cooling, Solar Heat Gain and Shading Effects, Air Distribution, Odors and Air Cleaning, etc. The research activities are fi nanced from Society funds, of which a portion comes from membership dues and from its publications, and these funds are amplified by contributions from friends in the industries engaged in the general field of heating, ventilating and air conditioning. THE GUIDE A distinctly new service was inaugurated by the Society in 1922 when it estab lished The Guide. Now in 1953, as the 31st Edition of the Heating Ventilating Air Conditioning Guide makes its appearance, it is notable that The Guide has served effectively not only the membership but the entire profession and the allied industries, and has received world wide recognition as a reliable and authoritative compendium of useful heating, ventilating and air conditioning data. Throughout the 31 years of its service The Guide has become a reference book of unchallenged position in its special field of engineering. The intention of its founders, to provide an instrument of service containing reference material on the design and specification of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems and containing essential and reliable information concerning modern equipment, has been carefully safeguarded by those responsible for the compilation of each Edition. The Guide exerts today one of the most positive influences tending to elevate, improve and extend the whole Art of Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning. It is universally recognized as the most useful and authoritative work in its field, being used by practicing engineers, educators and manufacturers in all parts of the world, and as a text-book by a growing number of the world's principal engineering institutions. 1559