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

Author(s)

• Gauger, Nicolas, ca.
• Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus)

Bibliographic Information

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, as useful this new-way, as the wood-fires propos'd by the French author, explain'd by an additional plate : the whole being suited to the capacity of the meanest work-man

（Landmarks, 2 ; monographs）

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Other Title

Fires improv'd

Note

"Courtesy of the History of Science Collections, the University of Oklahoma"

Header title: Fires improv'd

Reproduction of: London : Printed for J. Senex ... and E. Curll, 1715. 161, [11], 4 p

Details

• NCID: BB01337259
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Canaan, CT
• Pages/Volumes: 4 microfiches
• Size: 11 × 15 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Q111
  • LCC : TH2281
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Chimneys -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Smoke prevention -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Ventilation -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB01200312