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 He

Excerpt from 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 CombustioA new edition of the Treatise on Warming and Ventilating Buildings being called for, advantage has been taken of this circumstance to extend and improve the original work as much as possible.Notwithstanding the numerous improvements which have been made in the hot-water apparatus, since the publication of the first edition of this work, there appears to be nothing either to reject or to alter in that edition, though there is much which can With advantage be added to it. The present edition contains more than twice as much matter as the original work; but all that was therein given is still retained in the present volume, the additions being not necessary for correction, but merely for further illustration.The principal object of this work being strictly of a practical character, the most simple definitions which were possible have been adopted in explaining the various subjects brought under consideration.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.