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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.
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![ches above the Hearth, and a fpace of about half an Inch may be left behind the Box quite to the top of it, (as you may fee in fig. 26.) and go out about Xx, where the little openings V VV ( fig. 21.) muft belett; this Piece thus laid muft be clos d every way, except at bottom, where it muft not come beyond the Line Ce drawn upon the Hearth; you muft fill up the fides of the Chimney along AHC cha, that it may have the fhape of the Model, fix the little Trap- - Door, whofe Conitruétion we fhall give in the 1orh. Chapter, over the Cavity Z, and. this Chimney will be finifh’d if you woud have but three Cells. But if you have made theforepartof the Box of the whole breadth - HCch, inorder tohave five Cells, [ Fig. 28.] dig out of the Wall alf the Cavities HP » NC, bpne; L Fig. 29.7 Give the Plate the | ” fhape of the Model, from H to h, L Fig. 21.1 and lay the Box as we fhew’d ; the laft par- tition-Plate on each fide, together with.the — part of the fore-Plate CH ch which exceeds — theBox, with the furface of the Wall HPN bpn will make the two other Cells, behind which the Heat is not to pafs, but only be- hind the other three. This Chimney being thus laid and feal’d,, the Air that is brought from without, in. the manner fhew’n in the third Chapter, be-: Ing](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33016185_0001_0120.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
