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. Illustrated with Cuts. Written in French, by Monsieur Gauger: made English and improved, by J. T. Desaguliers, M. A. F. R. S. By whom is added, the manner of making coal-fires, as useful this new-way, as the wood-fires propos'd by the French author, Explain'd by an Additional Plate. The whole being suited to the Capacity of the meanest Work-Man.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gauger, Nicolas, ca. 1680-1730.

Standardized Title:

Mécanique du feu. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chimneys--Early works to 1800.

Chimneys.

Smoke prevention--Early works to 1800.

Smoke prevention.

Ventilation--Early works to 1800.

Ventilation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([6],161,[11],4p.,9 plates )

Other Title:

Fires improv'd

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Senex, at the Globe in Salisbury Court, and E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, [1715]

Notes:

With a contents list, a final advertisement leaf and an appendix, with separate pagination.

Price from imprint: Price 3 s.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T112501.

OCLC:

642281770