A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 568
ven after the fire wasout, tliough in a sululueil measure, thus secur-ing incidental ventilation. In the latter part oC the seventeenth centurysystematic ventilation w;is unilertaken by Sirtlie British Houses of Christojilier Wren VENTILATION ]Mr. Clarence il. Yuuiig appeared in the annualreports… … Vaulting Shaft; the Near Angle, between Choir and Transept, has a Shaft for IJach Great Group of Ribs, Five in All. Parliament, London. It was little better thansome holes in the ceilings. About 1723Desaguliers improved the system by connectingthe holes or tubes with heated chimneys. Thisis the…
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