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Guilty chimneys and the threat to the air we breathe
Industrialisation brought visibly polluted air to the world’s cities, captured in various media from the 1800s. Angela Saward explores the methods used, and the messages the images conveyed.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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Chimneys showing the fireplace aperture, fire bricks and a crane. Engraving by D. Lizars.
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An essay on the construction and building of chimneys. Including an enquiry into the common causes of their smoaking, and the most effectual remedies for removing so intolerable a nuisance; with A Table to proportion Chimneys to the Size of the Room. Illustrated with proper figures. By Robert Clavering, Builder.
Clavering, Robert.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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The edinburgh smoke-doctor. Containing Part I. An exact method of carrying up vents in new buildings, to prevent Smoke, with Observations upon the Errors of the Vents in Old Buildings, by way of Introduction. Part II. The Causes of Smoke in Old and New Buildings, especially in and about Edinburgh. Part III. A Description of several Machines for the Tops of Chimneys, to prevent Smoke. The whole illustrated and explained with copper-plate cuts. By A. C. and J. B. Masons.
Carmichael, Alexander (Mason)Date: M,DCC,LVII. [1757]- Books
Draft and capacity of chimneys / by J.G. Mingle.
Mingle, John Glenn.Date: 1925
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Specification of William Woodford : chimneys.
Woodford, William.Date: 1857