|
1916 |
Home Furnace Company (Miller)
originates in Holland, Michigan. |
|
1919 |
International Oil Heating Company (Intertherm)
begins in St. Louis. |
|
1924 |
Converted coal furnaces, which created
serious pollution problems, to oil with
their patented oil conversion burners. |
|
1926 |
Sidney Heiman and Truman Brown purchase
International Oil Heating Company. |
|
1927 |
International Oil Heating becomes one
of first companies to use radio for
advertising, utilizing such talent as Gene
Autry, Eddie Arnold, George Gobel, and Amos
and Andy. |
|
1933 |
Designed, built and installed the first
heater for trailer. |
|
1934 |
Name of International Oil Heating
changes to International Oil Burner,
registered and reorganized as a Missouri
corporation. |
|
1940 |
The first forced air distribution
system through perimeter heating for
residential homes and offices. |
|
1941-45 |
Only manufacturer selected to
produce heaters for military mobile homes,
including the personal office field trailer
of General Dwight D Eisenhower. |
|
1945 |
Patented the concentric shell hot air
heater to create high efficient heat in a
room heater for use in any home or office
space. |
|
1948 |
First alcove heater for mobile homes. |
|
1950 |
First zero duct clearance for mobile
home furnaces. |
|
1952 |
First fully automatic mobile home
furnace. |
|
1953 |
First mobile home furnace to distribute
air through ducts. |
|
1957 |
International obtains the rights to the
electric heater using hot water from
inventor Loyal Reynolds. |
| |
First oil furnace for mobile homes.
First hinged furnace door. |
|
1958 |
First sealed combustion oil furnace for
mobile homes. First central air conditioners
for mobile home use, the UF 2000. First and
only manufacturer from this point through
the 1980s to design and produce electric hot
water self-contained baseboard heaters. |
|
1959 |
First UL listing of a sealed gas
furnace on the MAC-1175 furnace. Home
Furnace Company develops a new gun oil
furnace, using the work of Dr. Lorin Miller
of Michigan State that becomes a great
success. |
|
1961 |
First ducted warm air sealed combustion
furnace for travel trailers. |
| |
First closet-installed mobile home
furnace. |
|
1964 |
Additional improvements to electrical
baseboard heating patents to reduce noise
created by the water. |
