FOUNDATION OF SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT OF VENTILATION

(GAUGER, NICHOLAS).

La Mechanique du feu, Ou l'Art d'en augmenter les effets, & d'en diminuer la dépense. Contenant le Traite de Nouvelles Chemine'es qui échaussent plus que les Cheminées ordinaires, & qui ne sont point suhettes à fumer, &c. Par Mr. G***.

Cosmopoli (Amsterdam ), No printer, 1714. 8vo. Full vellum (from ab. 1850). Engraved frontispiece. X,267,(9) pp. and 12 folded engraved plates. First 3 leaves with a small wormtract, some browning and a few scattered brownspots.

One of the earliest works dealing with chimneys and fire-places, how to construct them, their heating with coal and wood and their ventilation, giving the subject of ventilation the first scientific-technical treatment. Gauger designed and invented the Louvre-type of fire-place, its system described here. - The first part of the work was published a year before, Paris 1713. - Poggendorff I:852.

Order-nr.: 36128