A rudimentary treatise on warming and ventilation : being a concise exposition of the general principles of the art of warming and ventilating domestic and public buildings, mines, lighthouses, ships, etc / by Charles Tomlinson.

  • Charles Tomlinson
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1878
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Credit: A rudimentary treatise on warming and ventilation : being a concise exposition of the general principles of the art of warming and ventilating domestic and public buildings, mines, lighthouses, ships, etc / by Charles Tomlinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART I. CHAPTEE I. ON THE METHODS OP WARMING HOUSES BY MEANS OP OPEN FIRE-PLACES, ETC., BEFORE AND AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OP CHIMNEYS. Social influences of fuel, 63.—In China, G4.—In Normandy, Lapland, Persia, 65.—In Spain, 66.—The brazier, 67.—Charcoal fuel compared with gas, &c., 67, note.—Fatal effects of charcoal, 68.—The hypocaust, 69.—The Chinese hypocaust, 70.—Chinese fire-balls and kangs, 72.— Origin of the chimney, 73.—Saxon and Eoman houses, 73.—The louvre, 74.—Fire-places in castles, 74.—Chimneys in Venice, 75.—In Norman edifices, 76.—Wooden lattices and shutters, 77.—The hearth and andirons, 77.—The reredos, 79.—Prejudices against coal, 79.— Introduction of coal and coke, 81.—Savot, the first chimney doctor, 82.—Ilis fire-place, 83.—Sir John Winter's fire-place, 84.—The register, 84, note.—Prince Kupert's fire-place, 85.—The fire-cloth, 86.—Smoke consuming stove, 87.—One fire for heating two rooms, 88.—The so- called Polignac stove, 88.—Ganger, a real person, an account of his treatise, 89-94.—Desagulicrs' adaptation of the Ganger fire-places, 95. —^Franklin's Pennsylvanian fire-place, 95.—'Franklin's smoke con- Biuning fire-cage, 99.—The chimney draught, 100.—Chief cause of smoky chimneys, 102.—Supply of air to the fire, 103.—Various causes c.f smoky chimneys, 104.—Attempts at cure, 105.—Cowls, &c., 105.— Other cases of smoky chimneys, 107-110.—Count Rumford's improve- ments, 111.—Cutler's smokeless fire-place, 115.—Improved by Dr. Arnott, 116.—Effects of smoke, 118.—Lloyd's improvements in fire- places, 120-125.—Hollow brick air flues, 125.—Pierce's pyropneumatic Btove-grate; Jobson's stove-grate; Grifiin's cottager's stove, 126.—Gas stove, 127.—Pcaise of the open fire-place, 128. CHAPTER II. ON THE METHODS OF WARMING BUILDINGS BY MEANS OF CLOSE ST0YJ:3 AND HOT AIR APPARATUS. Objections to the open fire-place, 128.—^The Dutch stove, 130.—Its good and bad qualities, 130.—The American stove; the Russian stove, 131. —The German stove, 132.—Objections to the German and Russian stoves, 135.—Swedish stove, 136.—Method of building stoves, 136. —Heating effects of stoves, 137.—Franklin's stove, with descending flue, 137.—Beaumont's stove, 138.—Improved Dutch stove, 140.— The stove-grate, or chapelle, 142.—The Arnott stove, 143-146.—Joyce's stove, 147.—The cockle, or Belper stove, 148-152. CHAPTER IIL ON THE WARMING OF BUILDINGS BY MEANS OF STEAM AND HOT WATExl. Watt's apparatus, 152.—Hoyle and Green's, 153.—Boulton and Watt, and Ecid, 154.—Arrangement of steam-pipes, 155.—Heating effcscts, 156.—Arrangement of pipes, 158.—Disposal of condensed water, 158.
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