[Ads-l] Antedating of "Radiator"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Mon Jun 13 12:59:21 UTC 2022

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radiator (OED, 2., 1838)

According to this website, the term "radiator" appeared in an 1834 patent application by Denison Olmsted.

http://www.salvonews.com/story/a-peculiar-kind-of-apparatus-which-i-call-a-radiator-x94116x9.html

Fred Shapiro


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