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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, Hops, Gun-Powder, &c. and for many other useful Purposes. Which was read before the Royal Society in May 1741. By Stephen Hales D. D. F. R. S. Rector of Faringdon, Hampshire; And Minister of Teddington, Middlesex.
- Title
- A description of ventilators [electronic resource] : 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, Hops, Gun-Powder, &c. and for many other useful Purposes. Which was read before the Royal Society in May 1741. By Stephen Hales D. D. F. R. S. Rector of Faringdon, Hampshire; And Minister of Teddington, Middlesex.
- Author
- Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.
- Publication
- London : printed for W. Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's; R. Manby, over against the Old Bailey on Ludgate-Hill; and T. Woodward, M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]
Details
- Description
- xx,172p.,plates; 8⁰.
- Subjects
- Note
- A continuation was published in 1758 with the title 'A treatise on ventilators'.
- Paragraphs numbered 1-236.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Indexed In (note)
- English Short Title Catalog
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic reproduction.
- OCLC
- 642240354
- ECCO1-T100921
- Author
- Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.
- Title
- A description of ventilators [electronic resource] : 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, Hops, Gun-Powder, &c. and for many other useful Purposes. Which was read before the Royal Society in May 1741. By Stephen Hales D. D. F. R. S. Rector of Faringdon, Hampshire; And Minister of Teddington, Middlesex.
- Imprint
- London : printed for W. Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's; R. Manby, over against the Old Bailey on Ludgate-Hill; and T. Woodward, M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]
- Reproduction
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
- Indexed In:
- English Short Title Catalog, T100921.
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain England London.