Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 863
st provide for a sufficient supply of moisture: first, because in no otherway can the tendency to evaporation from the atmosphere which, under some conditions and in someclimates, the furnace induces, be counteracted; and second, because this element is imperativelydemanded for conditions of… … the previously-named condi-tions are fully secured, be pro-vided with a non-conductingfire-proof encasement, as of hollow tile, brick, or similarsubstance, for the conservationof locally-radiated heat, butnot unless these conditions aresecure: first, because such con-servation is a prime feature…
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