The Theory and Practice of Warming and Ventilating Public Buildings, Dwelling- Houses and Conservatories. Including a General View of the Changes Produced in Atmospheric Air, by Respiration, Combustion and Putrefaction,

MEICKLEHAM, Robert Stuart

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with the Means of Obviating its Deleterious Agency; and a Description of all the Known Varieties of Stoves, Grates and Furnaces; with an Examination of their Comparative Advantages for Economising Fuel and Preventing Smoke. By an Engineer, First Edition, vii, 340pp plus 19 steel-engraved plates, tall octavo, original publisher's cloth-backed boards with paper label, sometime carefully rehinged, some trivial occasional foxing but an excellent copy with the ex-libris plate of the bibliographer, art historian and architect Gilbert R. Redgrave and with his full ink signature, London, Underwood, 1825. * A major comprehensive and extensive work that gives significant insight into all the available methods of heating and ventilation at the height of the industrial revolution. "Considering the rapid advancement which practical science has undergone in Great Britain during the commencement of the nineteenth century, it is very remarkable that so important an object as that of economising fuel, should not have attracted more general attention. Whether a certain degree of negligence in this interesting branch of our civil and domestic economy may not have arisen from the circumstance of this country being more peculiarly favoured than any in Europe with an almost unlimited supply of fuel, it would be difficult to determine." (p.1) "With regard to the question of economy in the consumption of coals in our steam engine furnaces, foundries, &c. the subject has met with a proper degree of attention from the number of ingenious men who have employed their talent in the various improvements made of late years in these valuable inventions; though in many of the minor operations of the arts, where fire is employed in the process, a great waste of fuel still exists, from the misconstruction of the apparatus or a mismanagement of the fire. But the quantity of fuel wasted in this manner bears no proportion to the enormous waste occasioned by the mal-construction of our domestic stoves or grates. And, what is perhaps of not less consequence to the inhabitants of large or populous towns, the nuisance and unwholesome atmosphere produced by the evolution of such vast masses of coal-smoke." p.40-1 "PURIFICATION OF THE AIR A PART OF INTERNAL POLICE [i.e. Policy]. As this part of the subject is immediately connected with the consumption, or prevention of that vile nuisance, coal smoke; as well as the disengagement of the various putrescent effluvia from animal and vegetable decomposition. It is to be greatly regretted, that our police department should never have thought the subject worthy of their serious attention. The application of sumptuary laws would, certainly, not harmonize with the feelings and habits of Englishmen, generally speaking. But in proportion as it forms a part of the national character and the glory of our countrymen, to submit patiently and even cheerfully to those regulations which are shewn to be enacted for the convenience and advantage of the community collectively; so would it be easy to apply and render effective regulations of this sort, if they were promulgated with the same impartial justice and liberal views as are evinced in many other departments of legislation, by the able statesmen who at present administer the executive authority under his gracious majesty, George the Fourth. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 25458

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