A description of ventilators
Subtitle: whereby great quantities of fresh air may with ease be conveyed into mines, goals [sic] 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, hop, gun-powder, &c., and for many other useful purposes
By: Which was read before the Royal Society in May, 1741 ... By Stephen Hales
Contributors: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher: Printed for W. Innys [etc.]
Published: 1743
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Ventilation
Notes: A continuation was published in 1758 with title "A treatise on ventilators"

ESTC T100921.