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 57
s of combustion being carried entirely out of theapartment. Fig. 3 explains the usual appearance of apartments that maybe termed soporific rooms, from the extent to which thesystem is usually overpowered by the excessive amount of theproducts of combustion from the gas. The sketch is from… … SOPORIFIC ROOMS. 33 tremely oppressive. The movement of the air is illustrated inFig. 178. 65. The air is equally bad in innumerable shops, countingrooms, and other places where the principal heat is produced bythe body, or by the common gas-lamps in use. 66. The ventilation of the dwellings of…
