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.

  • John Whitehurst
Date:
1794
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/60 (page 16)
    Such then are the difagreeable confer]uences arifing. from the exaftnefs of the carpenter’s work in all houfes- where no provifion is made for admitting the external air. It will appear from what has juft been faid, that the chimneys of the lower apartments often derive their fupply of air from the chambers,, the doors being, open ; and hence it is, that, when feveral flues are comprifed in one and the fame ftack, the chambers are filled with fmoke and foot from the operation of the fires below. Thefe circumftances point out the neceffity of ena- bling the chimneys to a£t independently of each other, by means of one general refervoir in the lower parts of the hou fe, from which every apartment may be feparately fupplied with air. Such a plan might be executed without much difficulty, and would be at- tended with numerous advantages. It would promote a conftant circulation of pure air through the apart- ments ; it would clear away from them the fmoke and foot; it would contribute much to the prefervation of furniture, books, paintings, See. Laftly, it would pre- vent the diffuffon of infectious effluvia from one room to another. The importance of thefe objects does not require to be enforced by argument. I fhall therefore proceed