A practical treatise on warming buildings by hot water, on ventilation, and the various methods of distributing artificial heat, and their effects on animal and vegetable physiology : to which are added, an inquiry into the laws of radiant and conducted heat, the chemical constitution of coal, and the combustion of smoke /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Whittaker,
1844
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| Edition: | 2nd ed., greatly enl. |
| Series: | Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | "In the present work there have been incorporated several papers ... which have been read before the Institution of civil engineers; and also the author's articles on 'Stoves' and Ventilation,' published in the Encyclopaedia metropolitana."--Pref. Reproduction of original from Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University. Goldsmiths'-Kress number 33622.16. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |