A description of ventilators
Subtitle: whereby great quantities of fresh air may with ease be conveyed into mines, goals, 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, which was read before the Royal Society in May, 1741
By: by Stephen Hales
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 7967; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed for W. Innys ... [et al.
Published: 1743
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Ventilation; Air; Pollution
Notes: A continuation was published in 1758 with title "A treatise on ventilators."

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 07967.

Hanson 5742