Despite the name, radiators generally transfer the bulk of their heat via convection, not by thermal radiation, though the term convector is used more narrowly; see radiation and convection, below.
The cost of a convector stove, including installation, averages about £15 per appliance.
This has come about through the improved patterns of oil-burning equipment, both the forced-draught burners in furnaces and the ordinary domestic convector heaters.
Reuben conceived the idea of the first convector radiator in 1925 which replaced the heavy, bulky, cast-iron radiators that prevailed at the time.
It looks rather like a tubby electric convector fire.
There are 12 million of all kinds, and we are seeking to cover all new oil appliances, whether of the old convector type or the drip-feed type.
It is estimated that half a million oil convector heaters are now being sold each year in this country.
At the same time it introduced electrical convector heaters and panel heaters (ceramic heaters).
