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.
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- M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]
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London : printed for W. Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's; R. Manby, over against the Old Bailey on Ludgate-Hill; and T. Woodward, M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]
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xx,172p.,plates ; 80.
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ESTC T100921
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