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The first volume consists of 104 plates, 19 of which are highly
finished in colours. The second volume, which will complete the work,
is now in progress, and will be finished during 1850.
2 vols. fcap. 8vo, with 240 Figures, price 16s.
ON THE HISTORY AND ART OF WARMING AND VENTILATING Rooms and Buildings
by Open Fires, Hypocausts, German, Dutch, Russia, and Swedish Stoves,
Steam, Hot Water, Heated Air, Heat of Animals, and other methods; with
Notices of the progress of Personal and Fireside Comfort, and of the
management of Fuel. By WALTER BERNAN, Civil Engineer.
"Since Stuart's 'Anecdotes of the Steam Engine,' there has been no
such bit of delicious mechanical gossip as this little book of Mr.
Bernan.... For six months or more every year, we must depend much
more on the resources of science and the practical arts for our
health and comfort, than on the natural climate: in short, we
must create our own climate. To help us to the means of doing
this appears to be one of the objects of these little volumes, in
which, as we have shown, are collected a multitude of expedients
of all times and nations, collected with research, selected with
judgment, and skilfully arranged and described.
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