Illustrations of the theory and practice of ventilation : with remarks on warming, exclusive lighting, and the communication of sound (1844)
Reid, D. B. (David Boswell), 1805-1863 · London : Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans · leaf 331
not. 686. Fig. 237 represents another variety of exclusive light-ing, fresh air being supplied to the apartment by a porous sur-face from a, and the vitiated air from the lamps above g gmingling with the air from the apartment, and being dischargedby the central ventilating aperture. 687. After the… … health of the inmates suffered from the carbonic acid and mois-ture, as seriously as the goods kept for sale, a great diminution LIGHTING OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 307 in the deterioration of exposed goods always accompanied theimproved health of the inmates. V £r ]/ ,-y 688. The gas-burners used by…