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A. S. H. V. E. RESEARCH LABORATORY Since 1919 The American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers has maintained a permanent research staff and facilities devoted solely to the study of funda mental problems in the field of heating, ventilating and air~conditioning. During the past quarter century much has.been done to advance the art by establishing scientifically sound data which the engineer can apply in the design, operation, and maintenance of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems and equipment. For twenty-five years the Society's Research Laboratory was located at the U. S. Bureau of Mines Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Laboratory was moved to Cleveland in 1944, and early in 1946 the Society purchased premises at 7218 Euclid Avenue. 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 edu cational institutions 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. The research activities are financed from Society funds, of which a portion comes from membership dues and from its publications, and these funds are amplified by contribu tions 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 established The Guide. Now in 1948, as the 26th 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 26 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. During its quarter century of service The Guide has progressed from a distribution of 5,000 copies to the present distribution of 18,000 and it has reached all parts of the world. Throughout the years The Guide has served a double purpose of providing the profession with a practical reference work and the advertiser with an effective medium for dissemination of catalog data. 1280