A practical treatise on the construction of chimneys : containing an examination of the common mode in which they are built : with an accurate description of the newly-invented tunnel, demonstrating its utility and safety, its importance in superseding the painful practice of employing climbing-boys, the remedy which it affords for the nuisance of smoky flues, and the advantages to be derived from its rendering those lofty shafts, with their numerous unsightly contrivances at present in use, entirely unnecessary : together with complete instructions for its adoption, whereby a competent judgment may be formed of the causes which prevent the free ascent of smoke in chimneys, and workmen may be enabled to apply a cure for so serious an evil : also tables and calculations, by which estimates of the expense can be framed / by John William Hiort ... ; illustrated with plates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hiort, John William, 1772-1861.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chimneys.

Physical Description:

vii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 58 pages, 4 folded leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and Published for the author by Winchester and Varnham ..., 1826.

Local Notes:

Signed by author on verso of title page.

OCLC:

81028643