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 723
-engine of one-horse power mightalways be combined with the steam apparatus for other purposes, it might be em-ployed for driving different kinds of machinery, such as a washing-machine, a churn,a straw-cutter, oat-bruiser, &c. It has been remarked to us by a correspondent, who haspaid great… … by Mr. William Strutt, from the common washing-wheel; and is thus descrihed inSylvesters Domestic Economy : — Twosides of the wash-house are provided withstone benches. In the centre of the roonris a boiler, containhig 100 gallons of w^ater;and near it stands the washing-machine.There are also…
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