A practical treatise on warming buildings by hot water; on ventilation, and the various methods of distributing artificial heat, and their effects on animal and vegetable physiology. To which are added, an inquiry into the laws of radiant and conducted heat, the chemical constitution of coal, and the combustion of smoke. By Charles Hood ..

Object Details

Notes

"In the present work there have been incorporated several papers ... which have been read before the Institution of Civil Engineers; and also the author's articles on 'Stoves' and 'Ventilation,' published in the Encyclopædia metropolitana."--Pref.

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

1844

Call number

TH7511 .H76 1844

TH7511.H76 1844

Author

Hood, Charles 1805-1889

Type

Books

Physical description

xii, 348 p. illus., diagrs. 23 cm

Topic

Hot-water heating

Heating

Ventilation

Record ID

siris_sil_158654

Usage

CC0