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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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![wanting in our Diretions tothe Workmen; we will here defcribe’em more particularly. ' [Fig.5,& 7,25. Two thin Plates of Iron : ST rs, [Fig-5,25.] sNOoz,- fige7. exactly’ as long and as broad as the hole of the Fun- - ne] of the Chimney is where you defign to have /em, are fufficient. forthe infide of the _. Chimney. eee | The firft Plate ST+s -muft have in the middle of its breadtha fmall Axis pP, whofé two ends Pp muft ftand out about an Inch or two ; and there muft be two Wires U M, um fix’d to the middle of thofe twoends Uz, that you may keep it in what fituation you think ft. | [ Fig. 7.71 The fecond Plate NO 07 muft have its Axis NO, or Nz at its ends Nz or: NO, and a ftiff Iron Wire IH. fix’d to: the: middie], to putit up or down as you fee: hte. | | [ Fig. 5, or 25.] To fix the fir: Regifter: Plate, in two oppofite Places of the Funnel! within twofoot of its Hole at top,maketwor Holes Pp | Fig.4.T over againft oneanothers;. inthe middle of the breadth of the fore and! back part, putin two Iron Eyes for the: ends of the Axis to play in,: and make two» Ledges in the Chimney, in fuch manner, thatt the Plate may go no further when it fhutss élofe ; bring down the Wirès UM um down | the:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33016185_0001_0140.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
