A Posthumous Chat with Ara Marcus Daniels, a Forefather of Hydronic Heating
I was having a conversation the other day with Ara Marcus Daniels, author of many plumbing books, who is quite dead. I do such things because I have time on my hands and not much of a life.
We were talking about early heating systems, Daniels and I. I had questions and he had answers. When you want to know stuff about how things began, it pays to ask someone who’s been dead for a while. Guys like him were there at the beginning and saw most of it for themselves. Or they heard the really good stories. And then they went and wrote it all down in books and magazines, which is how I get to chat with them.