Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — Cars Heated by Hot Air. [ARTICLE]

Cars Heated by Hot Air.

A new type of electric heater for rooms and street cars consists of a combination of an electric fan In a bellshaped cise with porcelain cylinders wrapped with German silver wire. The cylinders are heated nearly redhot by means of electric current In the wire, and the fan blows a current of air over them, warming It as it passes, and thus accomplishes ventilation and heating at the same time. The supply of air may easily be taken from out of doors, so that such an apparatus will supply clean, warm air to an apartment, and may thus replace the furnace register or steam radiator.