Observations on the Construction of Healthy Dwellings: Namely, Houses, Hospitals, Barracks, Asylums, EtcClarendon Press, 1880 - 206 pages |
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Page 120 - feet high, to io degrees above the temperature of the outer air. If the room were not ventilated at all, and the walls were composed of non-conducting materials, the consumption of fuel to maintain this temperature would be very small ; but, in proportion to the change of
Page 112 - By Perkins' system the water is heated under considerable pressure, and a higher temperature is thus obtainable than with ordinary pressures. In its simplest form the apparatus consists of a continuous or endless iron tube of about one inch diameter, closed in all parts and filled with water. The joints are
Page 54 - health. This need not be set down to errors in calculation or in theory. There are many data which cannot be brought into the theoretical calculation. For instance, the carbonic acid disappears in a newlyplastered or lime-washed room, and could be recovered from the lime, therefore a newly cleaned lime-whited room will present different conditions from a
Page 124 - Fresh air is admitted to a chamber formed at the back of the grate, where it is moderately warmed by a large heating surface, and then carried by a flue, adjacent to the chimneyflue, to the upper part of the room, where it flows into the currents which already exist in the room.
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Page 110 - the greater is their comparative effect on the warming of air. Thus pipes heated by hot water under pressure convey heat to the air with greater rapidity than pipes heated by hot water at low pressures ; and steam pipes are more effective than hot-water pipes ; and steam at a high pressure is more, effective than
Page 40 - adulterated air. Its absence from the air of towns and of large rooms, even in the country, is probably the chief cause of the difference which every one feels when he breathes the air of a town or of an apartment, however spacious, and afterwards inhales the fresh or ozone-containing air of the open country.