Ventilation of BuildingsD. Van Nostrand, 1885 - 147 páginas |
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... less than to bad drainage and insufficient water supply , may be traced these scourges of the hu- man race which now seem rapidly giv- ing up their strongholds to the invading forces of science . We cannot wonder , on looking at such ...
... less than to bad drainage and insufficient water supply , may be traced these scourges of the hu- man race which now seem rapidly giv- ing up their strongholds to the invading forces of science . We cannot wonder , on looking at such ...
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... and the old wind - sails were again on duty . The illustrious names of Count Rum- ford and Sir H. Davy , as well as those of a host of other persons less celebrated , which figure in the annals of ventilation , attest the 24.
... and the old wind - sails were again on duty . The illustrious names of Count Rum- ford and Sir H. Davy , as well as those of a host of other persons less celebrated , which figure in the annals of ventilation , attest the 24.
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... less trace of carbonic ox- ide and unburnt gas , will be rather more than 36 cubic ft . per hour , from each burner . When this volume , unfit for breathing , is allowed to mingle with the air of the room , it requires a far greater ...
... less trace of carbonic ox- ide and unburnt gas , will be rather more than 36 cubic ft . per hour , from each burner . When this volume , unfit for breathing , is allowed to mingle with the air of the room , it requires a far greater ...
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... less diminu- tion causes the difference between fresh air and vitiated . * I will here explain , for the benefit of * The opinion of the present day casts a doubt upon the diminution of the oxygen being the cause of the difference ...
... less diminu- tion causes the difference between fresh air and vitiated . * I will here explain , for the benefit of * The opinion of the present day casts a doubt upon the diminution of the oxygen being the cause of the difference ...
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... less in the former than in the latter compound . Carbonic oxide , though a dangerous gas , need not be considered at length here , as it does not , I believe , exist in sewers , and is very seldom found in houses . * It cannot , like ...
... less in the former than in the latter compound . Carbonic oxide , though a dangerous gas , need not be considered at length here , as it does not , I believe , exist in sewers , and is very seldom found in houses . * It cannot , like ...
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air allowance air per hour air supply amount of air breath Bridges burner Butler calculated carbonic acid cause ceiling cesspool Chemical chimney cloth coal cold considered Construction cubic feet cubic foot cubic space allowance disease draft Engineers exhaled expense fact feet per hour fire-place floor flue foul air fresh air furnace gas lights gas-lights gases heat house drains hydrogen illus Illustrated impurity ings inlets inmates insensible ventilation light lungs matter means of ventilation Mechanical mechanical ventilation ment method moisture morocco natural ventilation necessary NOSTRAND'S occupied odor open fire outlets oxygen Péclet persons plates PLYMPTON Practical Treatise Prof public buildings quantity of air quires Railway reason revolutions per minute sanitarians sanitary sanitary science sewage sewer gas sewers shafts sources of vitiation standard Steam systematic ventilation Tables Theory tilation tion trap tubes tunnel valve warming wood-cuts
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