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 89
stinvariably produced. No cases demonstrate, in a more convin-cing manner, the extreme importance of the general introductionof elementary science as a branch of education, than those con-nected with the use and disposition of fuel, where a little moreknowledge on the part of those who manage the… … Figs. 22 and 23 shew two of the forms of furnace that havebeen used for the consumption of smoke. Fig. 22. is a sectionof one of Mr Chanters furnaces, in which the principal pecnlia- CARBONOMETER. 65 rities are the power of preventing the access of air from below tothe first part of the furnace, by…
