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Ventilation - Early works to 1800
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A description of ventilators: whereby great quantities of fresh air may with ease be conveyed into mines, goals, hospitals, Work-Houses and Ships, In Exchange for their Noxious Air. An Account also of their Great Usefulness in many other Respects: As in Preserving all Sorts of Grain Dry, Sweet, and free from being Destroyed by Weevels, both in Grainaries and Ships: And in Preserving many other Sorts of Goods. As also in drying Corn, Malt, Hops, Gun-Powder, &c. and for many other useful Purposes. Which was read before the Royal Society in May 1741. By Stephen Hales D. D. F. R. S. Rector of Faringdon, Hampshire; And Minister of Teddington, Middlesex.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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A treatise on ventilators. Wherein an account is given of the happy effects of many trials that have been made of them; which has occasioned their being received, with general Approbation and Applause, on account of their Utility in many ways, to the great Benefit of Mankind, viz. In refreshing the Noxious Air of Ships, Hospitals and Mines, to the better Preservation of the Health and Lives of Multitudes. In preserving the Timbers of Ships much the longer from decaying. In easily sweetening stinking Cask Water and curing the ill Taste of Milk, from some Food of Cows. In new Methods of distilling Plenty of good Water at Sea. In refreshing the Air, and keeping up, and regulating, the Warmth of Melon and Cucumber Frames, and hot Green-Houses. And in several other useful Improvements. Part first. By Stephen Hales, D. D. Clerk of the Closet to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, F. R. S. and Member of the Royal Academies of Sciences at Paris and Bolognia.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Some considerations on the different ways of removing confined and infectious air; and the means adopted, with remarks on the contagion, in Maidstone Gaol. By Thomas Day, surgeon. To which is added an appendix. Containing some experiments on ventilating small sitting rooms, and preventing chimneys from smoking.
Day, Thomas, 1749 or 1750-1818.Date: [1784]- Books
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Fires improv'd: being a new method of building chimneys, so as to prevent their smoaking: in which A Small Fire, shall warm a Room better than a much Larger made the Common Way. With the manner of altering such Chimneys as are already Built, so that they shall perform the same Effects. Illustrated with Cuts. Written in French, by Monsieur Gauger: made English and improved, by J. T. Desaguliers, M. A. F. R. S. By whom is added, the manner of making coal-fires, as useful this new-way, as the wood-fires propos'd by the French author, Explain'd by an Additional Plate. The whole being suited to the Capacity of the meanest Work-Man.
Gauger, Nicolas, approximately 1680-1730.Date: [1715]- Books
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A treatise on ventilators. Wherein an account is given of the happy effects of the several trials that have been made of them, in different Ways and for different Purposes: Which has occasioned their being received with general Approbation and Applause, on account of their Utility for the great Benefit of Mankind. As also Of what farther Hints and Improvements in several other useful Ways, have occurred since the Publication of the former Treatise. Part second. By Stephen Hales, D. D. Clerk of the Closet to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, F. R. S. and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris and Bolognia.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]