Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 421
old fogies,, hold us back, sometimes onuntenable ground. The result is that the conservative element isthe safest class to follow; it neither discards a well-tried methodnor embraces a new one, without good reason to sustain the action.As before intimated, the change in character of buildings… … Fig. 153. Common Form of Crown and Stack Ventilation. however, as eveiy plumber well knows; and there is no better wayto disarm this type of credulity than for the plumber to be well versedin the philosophy of his business. The familiar cry that crown ventilation of traps destroys theseal by…
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