A description of ventilators : 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
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Title: A description of ventilators : 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
Classmark: BC Sc/HAL
Creator(s): Hales, Stephen (1677-1761)
Publisher: Printed for W. Innys... [et al.]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1743
Language: English
Size and medium: xx, 172 p., [2] folded leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/285891
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002191519705181
Description
A continuation was published in 1758 with title "A treatise on ventilators."
Indexed in: References: Hanson : 5742.
Indexed in: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 7967.
Additional description
Bound with 2 other publications by the same author in a volume lettered: HALES'S TRACTS. Volume contents: 1. Philosophical experiments, 1739. -- 2. A description of ventilators, 1743. -- 3. An account of some experiments and observations on tar water, 1747
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