Download or read book Rumford Fireplaces and how They are Made written by Benjamin Graf von Rumford and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plea for a more general consideration of the form and proportion of fireplaces with nearly 200 drawings and diagrams for construction, including the original Rumford drawings, and numerous ancient and modern mantels and fireplaces, 100 andiron designs and other details and fixtures.
Download or read book Rumford Fireplaces and How They Are Made written by Benjamin Rumford and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. "The plague of a smoking Chimney is proverbial; but there are many other very great defects in open Fire-places, as they are now commonly constructed in this country, and indeed throughout Europe, which, being less obvious, are seldom attended to; and there are some of them very fatal in their consequences to health; and, I am persuaded, cost the lives of thousands every year in this island. Those cold and chilling draughts of air on one side of the body, while the other side is scorched by a Chimney Fire, which every one who reads this must often have felt, cannot but be highly detrimental to health; and in weak and delicate constitutions must often produce the most fatal effects.--I have no doubt in my mind that thousands die in this country every year of consumption, occasioned solely by this cause.--By a cause which might be so easily removed!-- By a cause whose removal would tend to promote comfort and convenience in so many ways. Strongly impressed as my mind is with the importance of this subject, it is not possible for me to remain silent.--The subject is too nearly connected with many of the most essential enjoyments of life not to be highly interesting to all those who feel pleasure in promoting, or in contemplating the comfort and happiness of mankind.-- And without suffering myself to be deterred, either by the fear of being thought to give to the subject a degree of importance to which it is not entitled, or by the apprehension of being tiresome to my readers by the prolixity of my descriptions, I shall proceed to investigate the subject in all its parts and details with the utmost care and attention, and first with regard to smoking Chimnies: There are various causes by which Chimnies may be prevented from...
Download or read book Rumford Fireplaces and How They are Made written by Benjamin Rumford and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Rumford Fireplaces and How They Are Made Classic Reprint written by G. Curtis Gillespie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rumford Fireplaces and How They Are Made Several years ago I had occasion to build a house for James R. Steers, Esq., who was deeply interested in this subject of fireplaces and who brought to my notice a book of essays by Count of Rumford. And among them one on fireplace construction and alter ation. My main object in publishing this little book is to reproduce this essay in the hope that it will be inwardly digested bv the architect, the layman, and the builder, and that it will at least in a measure help to im prove the condition of a very important and much neglected feature of our homes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Rumford Fireplaces and How They Are Made written by Benjamin Rumford, Graf von and published by Almonte, Ont. : Algrove Pub.. This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Count of Concord written by Nicholas Delbanco and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional account of the life of eighteenth-century American physicist and inventor Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, as seen by his last surviving relative.
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Download or read book How to Inspect Fireplaces Stoves and Chimneys written by Nick Gromicko and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Works of Count Rumford Devices and techniques written by Benjamin Graf von Rumford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Thompson (later Count Rumford) aimed by his inventions and scientific research to increase the degree of comfort in daily life. His goals were practical and his contributions to our knowledge of the nature of heat proved extremely valuable. Between 1870 and 1875, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston published all of Rumford's papers that the Academy committee was able to find. The Academy edition, however, has long been out of print and practically unavailable. Here Sanborn Brown has rearranged the papers according to subject matter. Volume I contains Rumford's papers on the nature of heat; the second covers its practical applications. This third volume contains his papers on devices and techniques, including "Use of Steam for Transporting Heat"; "Means of Heating the Hall of the (French) Institute"; "New Boiler for Saving Fuel"; "Steam Heat for Making Soap"; "Fires in Closed Fire-Places"; "Kitchen Fire-Places"; "Salubrity of Warm Rooms"; "Salubrity of Warm Bathing"; "The Strength of Silk"; "Quantities of Absorbed Moisture"; "Advantage of Wheels with Broad Felloes"; and "Proposals for Building a Frigate."
Download or read book Fireplace Mantel Ideas written by John Lewman and published by . This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design, build and install your dream fireplace mantel with this updated edition of a popular classic. Inside you'll find two new step-by-step instructions on carving a rustic mantel with woodcarving tools and building a classic fireplace mantel using general woodworking skills and tools. In addition, the author includes an amazing selection of classic fireplace mantel designs including English traditional, Country French, Victorian, Art Nouveau, and more.
Download or read book Scientist Soldier Statesman Spy written by George Ingham Brown and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FDR rated bount Rumford, along with his contemporaries Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the greatest mind America has yet produced.
Download or read book The Birth of the English Kitchen 1600 1850 written by Sara Pennell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 opens up the early modern English kitchen as an important historical site in the construction of domestic relations between husband and wife, masters, mistresses and servants and householders and outsiders; and as a crucial resource in contemporary heritage landscapes.
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