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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

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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Seventh Conftruttion -for Chimneys in great Halls, or plases to warm feveral. People at ONCE. | “F-1 H E Conftrudtions given in the fore- going Chapters, are only for the Chimneys of common Chambers, or of Clo- fets; but for great Halls, and Fire-Places for Colleges, or other publick Societies, we _ muft vary a little from the proportions be- fore laid down: Inthe great Chimneys of fuch large Places, the Woodis burn’d whole, efpecially where the Billets or Pieces are but 3 foot and 8 inches long, that they may go in quite to the Back of the Chimney, without beingcutfhorter : In order to make the Model AHC cha[ Fig. 12.7] you muft . firft make Cc, the diftance ofthe fides at the . back of the Chimney, 5 Foot 8 Inches, and the Line Aa 7 Foot, or fomething lefs; we fappot it here of fuch a length, as is fit to determine the opening of the forepart . | the

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