Author: Hood, Charles
Title: A Practical Treatise On Warming Buildings By Hot Water, Steam And Hot Air, On Ventilation, And The Various Methods Of Distributing Artificial Heat, And Their Effects On Animal And Vegetable Physiology. To Which Is Added An Inquiry Into The Laws Of Radiant And Conducted Heat, The Chemical Constitution Of Coal And The Combuustion Of Smoke
Description: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1879, 5th eedition, enlarged. Cloth, VG. xiv+463pp, text figs, index, occasional foxing at the page edges, cloth a little rubbed, a nice copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Impartant work which went through many editions. The author was one of the most well respected Mechanical Engineers in Victorian Britain.

Keywords: architecture, building, heating, physics, steam, heating, boilers