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 ...

Main entry:

Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.

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Publication:

London : Printed for W. Innys ... ; R. Manby ... ; and T. Woodward., M. DCC. XLIII. [1743]

Description:

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

Notes:
Errata: p. xx.
Includes index.
Signatures: A⁸a²B-L⁸M⁶

Resources:
Connect online to the Making of the Modern World (The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)

Subject:

Ventilation.
great britain
ventilatoren
ventilators
Agricultural Engineering (General)
Landbouwtechniek (algemeen)

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Location: Library main 136098
Call No.: PO9791; ID:85-B24773
Status: Available

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