Since 1878 Buffalo Forge has had huge successes and leaps forward in air handling and industrial fan equipment, including the invention of modern air conditioning.The Buffalo Forge brand will forever be a legacy here at Howden, with many of our industrial fans (including variable pitch axial fans) still bearing the printed Buffalo Forge logo on their nameplate.And while we do not produce machines branded that way anymore, our current generation of axial, centrifugal and mixed flow fans owe much to the Buffalo Forge brand.We continue to support the Buffalo Forge installed machines, with our service, parts and retrofit work, with our main office for this work still based in Buffalo.
Howden Buffalo Fan Engineering Handbook Trial Fan EquipmentToday Buffalo Forge with Howden Americas bring industrial fans to almost every part of the globe. To learn more about the history of Buffalo Forge check out our article: The History of Buffalo Forge - The Road to Howden Americas. To find out more about what other brands we have acquired here at Howden take a look at our Supported Brands At Howden page. Thats probably not the end of the world, but if you needed a clean copy, I suspect you would have to uninstall and then re-install the CD content. Howden Buffalo Fan Engineering Handbook How To Get AFor a while, some of the links below did not work and I could not get information back from Howden regarding how to get a copy of the handbook since my contacts there had moved on. Just submit this form and you should get an e-mail with a download link. But if you are old and sentimental about books (like I am) you can still find used copies of it and earlier editions out there, as I mention in the blog post. Howden Buffalo Fan Engineering Handbook Update This NoteI submitted the form myself and will update this note if I notice any major differences. I believe Howden North America aquired Buffalo Forge at one point, thus the name change. If you look at the copyright page, it shows Howden Buffalo as the publisher. Howden North Americas Fan Engineering handbook is somewhat of a classic in the industry. The first copy I owned is from the early 1970s; I picked it up in a used book store at some point after coveting the copy one of my mentors had, which they generously allowed me to borrow. The copy in the picture is the 9th edition, published in 1999. However, the book has its roots in work by Dr. Willis Carrier, and was first published in 1914. Specifically, if you follow the links on their web site, or simply click on this link, you will be take to an Amazon.com page where you can purchase new or used copies. But, I suspect you can find copies for less by shopping around a bit on the internet or used book stores. For instance, I just found a copy of the 8th edition (1983) for 22.99 on the Alibris web site. Since the principles behind Newtonian physics have not changed much since 1983, I suspect the used 1983 edition represents a good value for someone on a budget. Interestingly enough, you will notice that the price range for a new copy, currently at least, is from 100 (directly from Howden) to 189 (from a reseller). My thought is that unless the reseller has a copy signed by Willis Carrier, youre probably better off ordering from Howden. This alone may be worth the price of obtaining the latest copy for a number of reasons I discussed in a previous post, including portability, searchability, physical storage space and weight (especially when traveling), and sustainability. But, the electronic version of the Fan Engineering Handbook complements all of these features by including interactive content. And while thats true, the electronic version of Fan Engineering has done a very thorough job of it by providing hyperlinks that take you to related relevant content elsewhere in the handbook. For instance, in the actual handbook, clicking on the equation hyperlinks shown in blue above will take you to those equations, which are in a different chapter. For instance, if while working with the electronic version of the handbook, you click on the little calculatorspreadsheet icon illustrated in the screen shot above, the following Excel spreadsheet opens up. ![]() In other words, you should save a copy to your project directory using the Save As feature of Excel before you modify them or add values. Otherwise, when you select Save, you will over-wright the original spreadsheets in the Fan Engineering directory.
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