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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. 1040 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 novice or stu thoritative, dent in re but written frigeration, in a journal and as a istic style to general refer- enable the ance work. reader to get This book the back contains 520 ground of pages of text each subject plus a catalog and an un section with derstanding various direc- of it that will tories and stick. Refrig lists. The erating Engi tech nical neering also contents are prints news, divided into features, four sections write-ups of separated by interesting section in personalities. dices on colored inserts for convenient Refrigerating Engineering has long been reference. The inside covers are likewise unique in its field not alone for the origi used for reference to the main topics and nality and authority of its contents, but the 33 chapters. for its coverage of all phases of refrigera All phases of refrigeration in theory and tion both as to machinery and application practice, from small to large machinery, problems. The applications of this art 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 applications include particularfy several 1937, the combination . rate with the 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 leather binding, $4.00, express charges collect. 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. 1041