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.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.