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Types of factory chimneys. Engraving by J.R. Robbins.
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Specification of William Fenner : apparatus for promoting the egress of smoke from flues, and for cleansing foul chimneys.
Fenner, William.Date: 1854- Books
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Specification of John Browne : preventing the escape of smoke from chimneys, and consuming or otherwise disposing thereof.
Browne, John.Date: 1854- Books
Observations on the causes and cure of smoky chimneys / By His Excellency Benjamin Franklin ... in a letter to Dr. Ingen-Housz ... Illustrated by a copper plate.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: 1787- Books
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A practical treatise on the construction of chimneys ... with an accurate description of the newly-invented tunnel ... Also tables and calculations / [John William Hiort].
Hiort, John William, 1772-1861.Date: 1826- Books
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Specification of John Browne : chimneys or flues, and apparatus for increasing draught, consuming smoke, or utilizing the same.
Browne, John.Date: 1854- Books
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Specification of Thomas Crook and Thomas German : apparatus for promoting the escape of smoke in chimneys, &c.
Crook, Thomas.Date: 1854- Books
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Specification of Samuel Austin Chapin : apparatus for subjecting smoke in chimneys to the purifying action of water.
Chapin, Samuel Austin.Date: 1854- Books
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A practical treatise on chimneys, containing full directions for preventing or removing-smoke in houses. Illustrated with copperplates. Third edition. By James Anderson; L.L.D.
Anderson, James, 1739-1808.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Specification of William Bickford Smith and William Bennetts : preventing the escape of smoke and gases from chimneys and furnaces.
Smith, William Bickford.Date: 1862- Books
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Specification of John Manley : ventilating apartments and purifying smoke in chimneys.
Manley, John.Date: 1854- Books
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Observations on the ventilation of rooms; on the construction of chimneys; and on garden stoves / Principally collected [by R. Willan] from papers left by the late John Whitehurst.
Whitehurst, John, 1713-1788.Date: 1794- Books
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Observations on the ventilation of rooms; on the construction of chimneys; and on garden stoves. Principally collected from papers left by the late John Whitehurst, F.R.S.
Whitehurst, John, 1713-1788.Date: 1794- Books
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An essay on the construction and building of chimneys : including an enquiry into the common causes of their smoking, and the most effectual remedies for removing so intolerable a nuisance ... / By Robert Clavering, builder.
Clavering, Robert.Date: 1788- Books
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The smith's right hand, or a complete guide to the various branches of all sorts of iron work. Divided into three parts. Part I. containing Near Forty genteel, new, and beautiful Designs, for Philadelphia, Venetian, Chinese, Gothic, Modern, Ornamental, Bath, and French Stoves. Calculated for the Universal Use of Stove-Grate-Makers, Smiths, Ironmongers, Braziers, Forgers, Japanners, &c. And particularly intended to furnish Noblemen and Gentlemen with Variety of Choice. Amongst the Designs published in this Book is a beautiful Bath Stove, executed at a Gentleman's House near Bond-Street; and which is universally allowed to be the only Method to prevent Chimneys from smoaking at all Times, and during all Weather. The whole neatly engraved from the original drawings, made by Messrs. W. and J. Welldon, Smiths.
W. and J. Welldon (Smiths)Date: M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- 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... / Written in French, by Monsieur Gauger: Made English and improved by J.T. Desaguliers... By whom is added, the manner of making coal-fires... The whole being suited to the capacity of the meanest workman.
Gauger, Nicolas, approximately 1680-1730.Date: 1715- Books
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Specification of William Henry Phillips and David Hickinbotham : construction of chimneys, flues, &c. : appparatus for ventilating the same, and for ventilating and warming buildings, &c.
Phillips, William Henry.Date: 1854- Books
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Report on the causes & prevention of smoke from manufacturing chimneys / by Harvey Littlejohn.
Date: 1897- Books
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Specification of Jean Frederic Marquis de Chabannes : pneumatic apparatus for producing currents of air in flues : apparatus for evaporating and cooling fluids : ventilation of chimneys.
Chabannes, Jean-Frédéric de, marquis de Curton, 1762-1836.Date: 1854- Books
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Pain's British Palladio: or, the builder's general assistant. Demonstrating in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. Illustrated With Several New and Useful Designs of Houses, with their Plans, Elevations, and Sections. Also, Clear and Ample Instructions, annexed to each Subject, in Letter-Press; with a List of Prices for Materials and Labour, and Labour only. This Work will be universally useful to all Carpenters, Bricklayers, Masons, Joiners, Plaisterers, and others, concerned in the several Branches of Building, &c. comprehending the following Subjects, viz. Plans, Elevations, and Sections, of Gentlemen's Houses. Designs for Doors, Chimneys, and Ceilings, with their proper Embellishments, in the most modern Taste. A great Variety of Mouldings, for Base and Surbase Architraves, Imposts, Friezes, and Cornices, with their proper Ornaments, for Practice, drawn to Half-Size: To which are added, Scales for enlarging or lessening at Pleasure. Also, great Variety of Stair-Cases; shewing the practical Method of executing them, in any Case required, viz. Groins, Angle-Brackets, Circular Circular Flewing and Winding Soffits, Domes, Sky-Lights, &c. all made plain and easy to the meanest Capacity. The Proportion of Windows for the Light to Rooms. Preparing Foundations; the Proportion of Chimneys to Rooms, and Sections of Flews. The principal Timbers properly laid out, on each Plan, viz. the Manner of framing the Roofs, and finding the Length and Backing of Hips, either square or bevel. Scantlings of the Timbers, figured in Proportion to their Bearing. The Method for trussing Girders, Scarfing Plates, &c. And many other Articles, particularly useful to all Persons in the Building Profession. The whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, fro the original designs of William and James Pain.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Pain's British Palladio: or, the builder's general assistant. Demonstrating, in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. Illustrated with Several New and Useful Designs of Houses, with their Plans, Elevations, and Sections. Also, Clear and Ample Instructions, annexed to each Subject, in Letter-Press; with a List of Prices for Materials and Labour, and Labour only. This Work will be universally useful to all Carpenters, Bricklavers, Masons, Joiners, Plaisterers, and others, concerned in the several Branches of Building, &c. comprehending the following Subjects, viz. Plans, Elevations, and Sections, of Gentlemen's Houses. Designs for Doors, Chimneys, and Ceilings, with their proper Embellishments, in the most modern Taste. A great Variety of Mouldings, for Base and Surbase Architraves, Imposts, Friezes, and Cornices, with their proper Ornaments, for Practice, drawn to Half-Size: To which are added, Seales for enlarging or lessening at Pleasure, if required. Also, Great Variety of Stair-Cases; shewing the practical Method of executing them, in any Case required, viz. Groins, Angle-Brackets, Circular Circular Flewing and Winding Soffits, Domes, Sky-Lights, &c. all made plain and easy to the meanest Capacity. The Proportion of Windows for the Light to Rooms. Preparing Foundations; the Proportion of Chimneys to Rooms, and Sections of Flews. The principal Timbers properly laid out on each Plan, viz. the Manner of sraming the Roofs, and finding the Length and Backing of Hips, either square or hevel. Scantlings of the Timbers, figured in Proportion to their Bearing. The Method for trussing Girders, Searsing Plates, &c. And many other Articles, particularly useful to all Persons in the Building Profession. The whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, from the original designs of William and James Pain.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The mechanism of fire made in chimneys: or, the art of improving the effects and diminishing the expences thereof. Containing a treatise of new-invented chimneys, that afford more Heat than the others, and are not subject to Smoak, &c. set forth in French by Monsr. Gauger: the entire work faithfully translated in English, from the last Paris-Edition, and Revis'd by several skilful Artists, so as to render it suitable to the Genius and Capacity of our workmen. To which is added, all the author's original draughts corrected and fairly engraved on copper-plates, with a large alphabetical table, explaining near Two Hundred Terms of Art, and other hard Words in the Treatise.
Gauger, Nicolas, approximately 1680-1730.Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]- Books
On the application of the simultaneous method of observing chimneys in Bolton and Oldham / by Herbert Fletcher.
Fletcher, HerbertDate: 1895- Books
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Richard Branson, chimney-sweeper & nightman, (living at no. 394,) opposite Cecil-Street, near the Adelphi in the Strand; performs the chimney-sweeping business in all its branches; extinguishes chimneys when on fire, with the greatest care and safety; cleans Smoak-Jacks, and cures Smoaky Coppers, having clean Cloths, and always attends with the Boys himself, and will always be obliged to any Person that please to employ me. Any Person that pleases to send to my House, shall be immediately waited on, by Day or Night. Please to take care of this Bill to prevent Mistakes.
Branson, Richard, chimney-sweeper.Date: 1787]- Books
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Observations on the causes and cure of smoky chimneys. By His Excellency Benjamin Frankin, LLD. F.R.S, president of the state of Pennsylvania, and of the American Philosophical Society, &c. in a letter to Dr. Ingen-Housz, physician to the emperor, at Vienna. Illustrated by a copper-plate.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]