Explanation of a new method for warming and purifying the air in private houses and public buildings : for totally destroying smoke, for purifying the air in stables, and every kind of buildings [sic] in which animals are lodged.

  • Chabannes, Jean-Frédéric de, marquis de Curton, 1762-1836.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Explanation of a new method for warming and purifying the air in private houses and public buildings : for totally destroying smoke, for purifying the air in stables, and every kind of buildings [sic] in which animals are lodged. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    influence of a powerful fire on one side, and of the im¬ mense draught which tends towards it on the other. In northern countries chimnies are not in use ; they are looked upon as detrimental to health and deficient in point of heat; in England, with a milder climate, the cold weather is more felt, because proper means are not employed to guard against it. Such are. Gentlemen, the four principle* of which I wish to submit the application to your superior knowledge* I hope 1 have been sufficiently explicit in respect to them, and that when you shall do me the favor to examine the application, you will be perfectly satisfied with its sim¬ plicity and facility of execution, and with the little expence attending the whole process. I have the honor to be, Dec. 11, Isis. Your most obedient servant, No. l, Russet Place, • A n Fitzroy Square. I he Marquis de CuABANNES. Iii consequence of the invitation above-men¬ tioned, a number of the most respectable cha¬ racters in science and medicine, have examined the application of those principles which have been explained, and have unanimously subscribed (with the exception of four persons only) to the following Certificate :— I have inspected the plan, proposed by the Marquis de Chabannes, for Ventilating Houses, and I account it more perfect than any other now in use, and therefore very important. I have also considered his method of Warming Houses, which, with little expence, possesses the ad- vantage of heating the air uniformly throughout