The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 212
s-sible. It has beensuggested that the.fresh-air duct becarried through thebuilding, so as tohave two inlets andthus avoid the pos-sibility of the hotair reversing andfollowing outthrough the duct.This is undoubtedlya wise precaution,but in any eventthe duct should bemade of galvanisediron to avoid… … i88 The Country House a way that the excess of heat may be tempered before delivery; thus the supply offresh air is not cut off by closing the register. The area of the cold-air duct should be aboutthat of the sumtotal of warm-airpipes. This isslightly excessive,owing to the expan-sion of hot air,…
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