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 1054
of the heat producer, or fuel-chamber. To this protruding end of theaxle, a winch is applied; so that the grating may be either rocked from side to side, andthus sift the ashes into the ash-drawer beneath ; or else it may be turned round, and thusempty the fuel-chamber of its contents. The meshes… … possible to the wire gauze of Davj-s safety lamp, and its operation is precisely the con-verse of that of the wire^auze. In the lamp, the flame is cooled as it issues throughthe meshes of the gauze; in my stove, the air is heated as it issues through the numerousinsterstices of the grating. In the…
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