Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning War Department Theaters

The furnishing and installation of air-conditioning in War Department theaters during the peacetime growth of the Service developed in step with progress in other directions. The buildings that the Service inherited were equipped with heating systems of the “gay-90's” design which usually caused overheating by a super-abundance of cast-iron radiators without benefit of any ventilation whatsoever. The auditoriums were well supplied with oscillating fans for summer operation, but their use died when sound pictures were born.

Print ISSN

0097-5834

Published

1943-01

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J09862