A half century of Boston's building : the construction of buildings, the enactment of building laws and ordinances, sanitary laws, the ancient and modern building, building statistics, Boston's valuation, a chapter of Boston's big fire, fire losses, public lands account, prominent architects, contractors and builders, building materials and their source of supply, inspection of buildings, the building and plumbing associations (1895)
Damrell, Charles S. (Charles Stanhope) · Boston : L.P. Hager · leaf 437
furnace, and closedat their outer ends; the hub, or disc, isalso tapped at its axis two inches for flowand return pipes. This combinationplaced with the spokes horizontal above the feed door offurnace, interferes in no way with the operation of the fur-nace, while it is exposed to the direct rays… … THOSE WHO HAVE BUILT THE CITY.
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