A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 575
en after the fire wasout, tliougii in a suIkIuciI luciusiire, thus secur-ing incidental ventilation. In the latter part ul the seventeenth centurysystematic ventilation was undertaken by SirChristopher Wren in the British Houses of VENTILATION Mr. Clarence B. Young appeared in the annualreports of… … Vaulting Shaft, the Near Anglk, i liiturp OK Kiiis, Five in All. 11 AND Transept, Hi i mi vb i n k E.wh Great Parliament, London. It was little better thansome holes in the ceilings. About 1723Desagnliers improved the system by connectingthe holes or tubes with heated chimneys. Thisis the first…
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