An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 1050
in a different manner either fromthat described by us, § 306, or that adopted in the Derbyshire Infirmary, and in anumber of private laundries, as noticed in § 1466. He proposes to dry householdlinen by its revolution over copper drums, heated by filling them with steam, as in thecalico… … passes over and under the heated roUers, and is remo\ed at c, having been dried in itscourse; c? is a roller pressed hard against the middle copper one, which is made strongfor the purpose. By these means the linen is mangled in its course of drying, so thatboth operations are performed together.…
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