Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 81
FIG. 2. —A ROMAN BRAZIER. 638 STORIES OF USEFUL INVENTIONS. [May, ancients, it seems, were forever persecuted bysmoke. However, after the wood in the hypo-caust was once well charred, the smoke wasnot so troublesome. The celebrated baths(club-rooms) of ancient Rome were heated bymeans of hypocausts… … FIG. 3.—A SPANISH BRAZIEK OF THE 17TH CENTURY. Indeed, the hypocaust had many of the fea-tures and many of the merits of our modernfurnace. Its weak feature was that it had noseparate pipe to carry away the smoke. Butas there were no chimneys yet in the world, itis no wonder there was no such pipe.…
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