Fires improv'd: being a new method of building chimneys, so as to prevent their smoaking : in which a small fire, shall warm a room better than a much larger made the common way. With the manner of altering such chimneys as are already built, so that they shall perform the same effects /
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Author / Creator: | Gauger, Nicolas, approximately 1680-1730 |
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Uniform title: | Mécanique du feu. English |
Imprint: | London : Printed for J. Senex and E. Curll, 1715. |
Description: | 161, [11] p., [9] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy: pages bound out of order. The University of Chicago Library's copy lacks the publisher's advertisements. Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes. |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2886881 |
Other authors / contributors: | Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744. Montagu, Frederick J. F. |
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Notes: | Most of the work is a translation of: Mécanique du feu. Publisher advertisements: p. [10-11] at end. |
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