A Practical Treatise on Warming Buildings by Hot Water: On Ventilation, and the Various Methods of Distributing Artificial Heat, and Their Effects on ... Into the Laws of Radiant and Conducted He - Softcover

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The practice of employing hot water, circulating through iron pipes, for diffusing artificial heat, is an invention of acknowledged utility. The present extensive and extending use of this invention ren ders it extremely desirable that its principles should be clearly defined, and the rules for its practical application laid down with precision; for without this knowledge its success will be uncertain, its application limited, and its results unsatisfactory. It can scarcely excite surprise, that prejudices should formerly have existed against this invention, while its merits and its principles were alike im perfectly known. Even at the present time they are but partially understood; and, therefore, to investigate these two subjects, is the proposed object of the present treatise, with the view of faci litating its application, and extending the sphere of.

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