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Excerpt from On the History and Art of Warming and Ventilating Rooms and Buildings, Vol. 2All this suffering and inconvenience, the cardinal demonstrates, was produced in his and by-gone times by house-raisers feeling they had done their duty when they had provided hearths, without duly consi dering that the end sought by burning the fuel in a chimney was to warm the rooms and the persons in them. These builders never seem to have re¿ected on ...

Excerpt from On the History and Art of Warming and Ventilating Rooms and Buildings, Vol. 1The inventions, of which the scattered notices are here collected, have in most cases been ar ranged in the order in which they appeared. A short popular account has been given of each, but it will be sufficient, perhaps, to give a prac tical person all the working hints he would require to enable him to construct a similar ap paratus, or to improve it.Ab...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from On the History and Art of Warming and Ventilating Rooms and Buildings, Vol. 1 "Every man's proper mansion-house and home, " says Sir Henry Wotton, "is the theater of his hospitality, the seat of self-fruition, the comfortablest part of his own life, the noblest of his son's inheritance, a kind of private princedome, nay, to the possessors thereof, an epitomie of the whole world." The contrivances to improve the focus or hearth wh...

Excerpt from On the History and Art of Warming and Ventilating Rooms and Buildings, Vol. 2 All this suffering and inconvenience, the cardinal demonstrates, was produced in his and by-gone times by house-raisers feeling they had done their duty when they had provided hearths, without duly consi dering that the end sought by burning the fuel in a chimney was to warm the rooms and the persons in them. These builders never seem to have re¿ected o...