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International Heating & Ventilating Exposition
THE AIR CONDITIONING EXPOSITION
Permanent Address--Grand Central Palace, New York, N. Y.
EXPOSITIONS HELD
The first in Philadelphia, 1930. The second in Cleveland, 1932. The third in New York, 1934. The fourth Exposition in Chicago, 1936. The fifth in New York, January 24-28,
1938. Subsequent Expositions will be held on alternate, even numbered years.
These are held coincident with the Annual Meeting of the American Society
of Heating and Ventilating Engineers and are directed by the International Exposition Company, under the auspices of the A.S.H.V.E.
. EXHIBITORS
Comprise leading firms in each phase of the industry: number has varied from 150 to 304 exhibitors.
EXHIBITS
These range from and comprise all the types of articles discussed or advertised in this copy of The A.S.H.V.E. Guide.
1. The Combustion Group: Furnaces, burners (oil and gas), grates, stokers, boilers, , radiators (various types), refractories and auxiliaries.
2. The Hydraulic Group: Water feeders, water heaters, pumps, traps, valves, piping, fittings, expan sion joints, pipe hangers, etc.
3. The Steam Heating Group: Vapor heating and steam specialties.
4. Hot Water Heating Group: 5. Air Group: Warm Air furnaces and
stoves, registers and grilles, cooling towers, air filters, motors, fans, blowers,conditioning equipment, venti lators (room and industrial types), unit heaters, etc. 6. Control Group: Instruments of pre cision for indicating, controlling or re cording temperature, pressure, volume, time, flow, draft or any other function to be measured. 7. Refrigerating: Compressors, con densers, cooling apparatus, contingent apparatus and refrigerants for homes, -factories, railroads, etc. 8. Central Heating: Apparatus and materials especially designed or adap ted to the use of central heating and central heating station supplies. 9. Insulating: Structural insulators (re fractory and cellulose materials),
asbestos, magnesia clays and com binations thereof, pipe and conduit, covering, etc., weather-stripping, etc.', 10. The Miscellaneous Group: Electric Heaters, boiler and pipe repair alloys, liquids and compounds, etc., which are not included above. 11. Machinery and General Equip
ment.
12. Air Conditioning Group: Equip ment which circulates and filters the air, and in summer dehumidifies and cools; in winter heats and humidifies, and does all these in proper season for complete, all year round air con ditioning.
VISITOR ATTENDANCE
Comprises a registered attendance in vited to the exposition and includes:
(Figures are 1934 analysis)
Industries
Governmental____ --......................:.186
Distributional Channels
Contractors. Dealers, Jobbers, Supply.
Houses, 32 classifications .5998
Home Owners___ ____
414
Industrial Users, 49 classifications_________ 3428
Professional and Service Organisations, 23
classifications.......... ,,,,.............................. 2017
Public Utilities. 922
Real Estate Management and Operation,
10 classifications____ __________
945
Educational Institutions__ ___
303
Miscellaneous 1043
Total,,:15,256
Occupations
Executive (44 titles)_______ ______________ 7850
Construction (16 titles and trades)________ 1022
Operation (44 titles and trades)20J 8
Technical (64 titles)...
2144`
Not Classified including Educators, Pub
lishers, Home Owners, etc______________ 2222
Total___________________________________15,256
The registered attendance at the 1936 Exposition in Chicago was 27,743 but the analysis of industries and occupations has. not been completed at the time this goes to press. These visitors came from 273 cities and towns in 44 States of the United States and 35 cities and towns in 10 foreign countries.
Industrial Expositions in America lead the expositions of the world in style, business effectiveness, industrial influence and educational value. This Exposition stands among the leaders in Industrial Expositions in America. It is an edu cational institution which biennially brings together the research developments and improvements in equipment and materials.
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Publications
American Society of Refrigerating Engineers
37 West 39th Street, New York, N. Y.
REFRIGERATING DATA BOOK
REFRIGERATING ENGINEERING
T RHE '37-'38 Refrigerating Data Book, a one-volume encyclopedia contributed to by 73 refrigerating experts, achieves an
efrigerating Engineering in its 33rd
volume continues to be the periodical source of authoritative information on all
excellence matched by few engineering or phases of the arts and sciences of refrig
scientific books in any field. Like its eration. In its most solid aspects it carries
predecessors it contains all the funda the Journal of the A .S.R.E., a living record
mental data available on the art of refriger of the technical advance of practice and
ation, with many additions in the light of research in its field. The larger portion of
recent researches. Unlike some earlier its pages is, however, devoted to material
editions it is, however, arranged to permit of wider appeal, with original articles, none
of use by the
the less au
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the back
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write-ups of
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Refrigerating Engineering has long been
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the 33 chapters.
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are covered in the Data Book, each part are, of course, very numerous.
being written by a leading authority. The
The rate has been reduced to $4 for
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excellent chapters on all phases of air Refrigerating Data Book being $7.50.
conditioning in design and layout, for
large and - small installations. In hard
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CODES AND STANDARDS
MEMBERSHIP ACTIVITIES
THE A.S.R.E. has a number of technical codes in its series of Circulars. Recent
IT is the policy of the i4.5.i?.E. to treat in
additions include the code for testing and
its meetings current subjects touching rating mechanical condensing units (No.
upon all phases of the art of refrigeration. 13, 15c) and the code for testing and rating
Membership is in four grades with dues air conditioning equipment (No. 14, 20c).
from $7.50 to $17.50. Sections hold Other current data: Plant test code, cor
meetings in the following cities: Boston, rosion prevention code, safety code, code
New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, for testing iced refrigerators. Write for
Milwaukee, St. Louis and Los Angeles. free booklet Pointers to Authors, including
The Society holds its 33rd Annual Meeting style sheet and directions for locating in
in 1937.
formation in refrigeration.
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