Fires improved, or, A new method of building chimnies, so as to prevent their smoking
Subtitle: in which a small fire, shall warm a room much better than a large one made the common way : and the method of altering such chimnies as are already built, so that they shall perform the same effects
By: by Monsieur Gauger ; made English from the French original ; by J.T. Desaguliers
Edition: The 2nd ed. With an appendix, containing several farther improvements made by the translator and others.
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 7455; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed for J. Senex and E. Curll
Published: 1736
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Fireplaces; Chimneys
Other titles: Fires improved.; New method of building chimnies so as to prevent their smoking.
Notes: Translation of: Mechanique du feu, ou, L'art d'en augmenter les effets & d'en diminuer la dépense.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 07455.