A Popular treatise on the warming and ventilation of buildings : showing the advantages of the improved system of heated water circulation, &c. &c. &c. / by Charles James Richardson.
- Charles James Richardson
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A Popular treatise on the warming and ventilation of buildings : showing the advantages of the improved system of heated water circulation, &c. &c. &c. / by Charles James Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![but rather to superadd to its pleasant features the valuable properties in which it is deficient. The science of warming and ventilating our buildings, (if the labours of our professional men justify the term,) so as effectually to counteract the evils of our climate, increase our domestic com- forts, and be provided at an easy expense, has been productive of different systems. Those now in use are the following:— Atmospheric air, heated by hot iron plates in stoves, Ditto, ditto, by the circulation of steam in iron pipes, Ditto, ditto, by the circulation of hot water in iron pipes. To enter fully into the merits and demerits of each of these several systems, would fill a folio vo- lume, and demand the exercise of learned investi- gation and philosophical experience, very distinct from the character of a tract like this, intended to be popular, and desiring to] be plain and obvious to every capacity. Every person is interested in the subject; therefore, it must be evident that ab- struse reasoning and technical description should be studiously avoided, and those simple facts alone be offered to the reader, from which experience and good sense will draw the necessary deductions. To this it may be added, that these pages are ntended to illustrate that apparatus only, (of the warm-water system,) which experience has proved](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21074446_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
