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. The interest
with which one reads is sustained and continuous, and you devour
a two-volume inventory of stoves, grates, and ovens, with the
voracity of a parish school-boy, and then--ask for more."--_The
Athenæum_.
London: GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street.
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Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5.
New Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London;
and published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish
of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No.
186. Fleet Street aforesaid.--Saturday, November 17. 1849.