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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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![to the length’ of the hole of the Chimney ;° - in thefe two Pieces fix the third by its ends, which you muft thruft into the Triangular Holes QRS, grs, folding it as far as the Hole requires; then you may join alfo to ’em the fourth and fifth Pieces, folding them as much as is neceflary to have their ends GHIL, ghil, PONM, Youm, reft upon the edges of the two firft, beginning from. GP, gps [ Fg.8,9.7 : All thefe Pieces being thus joyned toge= ther, you muft fix them above the three Py-: ramids, in fuch manner, that the line Rr of the Piece which is a Triangular Prifm, may lié over the middle of the upper Hole of” the three Pyramids, which need not be di-: vided here: The ends AB, 2}, of the two: firft Pieces, are to reft upon the two fides: AB ab, of the Funnel] of the Chimney ; fa-» {ten and-feal the Hole very: well when it is; in this fituation, and you will have the {e-- cond Conftruction. | If you woud not make the two firft Pie ces of Wood, for fear of Fire or wearing! out too foon, make only the Model of Wood,, that by means of it, you may on each fide; raife a Wing of Plaifter upon AB ab, and fo) fix and feal, on the fides and in the middle,, the third, fourth and fifth Pieces, in the man-- ' . ner.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33016185_0001_0138.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
