A description of ventilators : whereby great quantities of fresh air may with ease be conveyed into mines, goals, hospitals, work-houses and ships, in exchange for their noxious air. An account also of their great usefulness in many other respects: as in preserving all sorts of grain dry, sweet, and free from being destroyed by weevels, both in grainaries and ships: and in preserving many other sorts of goods. As also in drying corn, malt, hops, gun-powder, &c. and for many other useful purposes. Which was read before the Royal Society in May 1741. / By Stephen Hales ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.

Contributor:

Founders Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ventilation.

Physical Description:

xx, 172 pages, 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. Innys ... ; R. Manby ... ; and T. Woodward., 1743.

Notes:

Errata: p. xx.

Includes index.

A continuation was published in 1758 under title: A treatise on ventilators ... Part second.

Signatures: A8a2B-L8M6

Bound with its continuation, Hales' A treatise on ventilators (London, 1758)

Local Notes:

Bound with the author's A treatise on Ventilation. London, 1758.

OCLC:

3881856