An edition of A description of ventilators (1743)

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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An edition of A description of ventilators (1743)

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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Printed for W. Innys ... [et al.
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Ventilation Air Pollution Early works to 1800 Air quality management

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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
1743, Printed for W. Innys ... [et al.
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A continuation was published in 1758 with title "A treatise on ventilators."

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 07967.

Hanson 5742

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Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 7967, Making of the Modern World

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xx, 172 p., [2] folded leaves of plates
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172

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OL60721544M
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63237286

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OL44454820W

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