Copy 1
Fires improv'd: being a new method of building chimneys, so as to prevent their smoaking: in which a small fire, shall warm a room better than a much larger made the common way. With the manner of altering such chimneys as are already built, so that they shall perform the same effects... / Written in French, by Monsieur Gauger: Made English and improved by J.T. Desaguliers... By whom is added, the manner of making coal-fires... The whole being suited to the capacity of the meanest workman.
- Gauger, Nicolas, approximately 1680-1730
- Date:
- 1715
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Fires improv'd: being a new method of building chimneys, so as to prevent their smoaking: in which a small fire, shall warm a room better than a much larger made the common way. With the manner of altering such chimneys as are already built, so that they shall perform the same effects... / Written in French, by Monsieur Gauger: Made English and improved by J.T. Desaguliers... By whom is added, the manner of making coal-fires... The whole being suited to the capacity of the meanest workman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
108/190 page 98
![woud have one, and.a little forwarder one for the Vent-Hole z ; thofe two places muft: be cut thro’, but the Afh-Hole, if poffible: muft be funk an Inch. In the roth. Chap.. we hall give the Conftruction of the Trap-- Door, which muft be fix’d to the Hole Zs; where the Wind is to come in. Laftly, You: muft fold downwards to a fquare all the: part which is beyond Aa,’ and fo you will! have the firft Piece. | Fig. 13. Second Piece.] The fecond Piecé is} a Plate of planifh’d Braff or Copper ABEG: gebaaslongasthe round of the Back and Sides; of the Chimney, that is, in this cafeof about: fix Feet, (it might beof Plate-Tron, and only) four foot long) and three foot and a haff? high; fold the lower part and the two fides: to a {quare a little more than the breadth off a quarter of an Inch: Set off upon each fide: theheighth AB 2b, of 2 Feet and 3 Inches} each; when the Plate is 6 Foot long,and co vers the whole compaf of the Chimney, take: offthe two littleReGanglesBEG, be 3 in the: middle of this great Plate, put a little Plate with its Frame, as we faid in the foregoing? Chapter. You muft alfo cut out little Plates five In ches broad, fome two foot and a half, andi fome about a foot long, as may be: feen im fig. 18, to make Partitions under the fecondi Piece,,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33016185_0001_0108.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
