A popular treatise on the warming & ventilation of buildings : showing the advantage of the improved system of heated water circulation / by Charles James Richardson.

  • Richardson, Charles James.
Date:
1856
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Credit: A popular treatise on the warming & ventilation of buildings : showing the advantage of the improved system of heated water circulation / by Charles James Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    metropolis than any other in Europe, although our supplies of water and number of engines, managed by clever and courageous men, are more abundant than in any other city. The known impossibility of discovering a com- plete remedy, by better construction, for the defi- ciencies enumerated in our flues and fire*-places, together with the increasing demand made by our medical practitioners, for a temperature suited alike to the climate and the wants of the delicate and the aged, have, within the present century, occasioned great attention to be given to the sub- ject, by scientific and mechanical men. At a period when knowledge and intelligence are so universally diffused (and the acquisitions obtained through them are on all sides evident), it may be presumed that, if the result of their labours is really found to be efficient, and a system of warming houses, generally or partially, can be adopted at an easy expense, no blind prejudice in favour of our old habits will prevent its adoption. In point of fact, the plan of warming houses which we are now going to examine, and to which the foregoing remarks are prefatory, is not in- tended to supersede the use of the English fire- place, which we have long deemed the favoured spot where “ Social mirth Exults, and glows before the blazing heartli,”