Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 106
temperature is sufficiently high to injure its life-giving properties.Steam or hot-water pipes are less liable to this objection than our ordinaryhot-air furnaces. The former have also an advantage in the automaticmethod by which they are regulated. Nervous people might, with somedegree of reason,… … Detiirti No. 15. ters at once, the pressure upon the boiler becomes too great, the steamitself acts upon a regulator which reduces the draught of the furnace.There is also a safety-valve, through which the vapor forces an escapewhen the device just mentioned proves insufficient. This regulator is…
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