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The labelled interior of a boiler room at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.

Two surgeons treating two seated male patients in a surgery, many surgeons' dishes are hanging from the ceiling. Line engraving by W. Kilian, 1652, after C. Ortz.

A receptacle for burning coal to heat cautery instruments. Engraving.

Technology: a special hinge, and a stove. Engraving by W. Kelsall after C. Varley.

Sir John Soane's House and Museum: plans of the basement and ground floors, showing the heating arrangements. Lithograph by Day & son.

The interior of a room with steam and cold water pipes at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.

Specification of Joseph Bramah : steam engines and boilers.

District heating in American housing : the report of a mission to the United States of America February - April 1947.

Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming and kindred subjects, with estimates for the best systems in use and upwards of 300 illustrations / by William Eassie.

Explanation of a new method for warming and purifying the air in private houses and public buildings : for totally destroying smoke, for purifying the air in stables, and every kind of buildings [sic] in which animals are lodged.

Specification of William Clerk : stoves and fire-places for dwellings, &c.

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Specification of Joseph Bramah : steam engines and boilers.

District heating in American housing : the report of a mission to the United States of America February - April 1947.

Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming and kindred subjects, with estimates for the best systems in use and upwards of 300 illustrations / by William Eassie.

Explanation of a new method for warming and purifying the air in private houses and public buildings : for totally destroying smoke, for purifying the air in stables, and every kind of buildings [sic] in which animals are lodged.

Specification of William Clerk : stoves and fire-places for dwellings, &c.