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 ... By Stephen Hales ...

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Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London, Printed for W. Innys [etc.] 1743.
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xx, 172 p. 21 cm.

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    Multi-title collection including An account of some experiments and observations on Mrs. Stephen's medicines for dissolving the stone : wherein their dissolving power is inquir'd into, and shown and 2 other(s).
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    • A continuation was published in 1758 with title "A treatise on ventilators."
    • No. 1 of a volume of pamphlets.
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    Multi-title collection including An account of some experiments and observations on Mrs. Stephen's medicines for dissolving the stone : wherein their dissolving power is inquir'd into, and shown and 2 other(s).
    LCCN
    08008744
    OCLC
    3881856
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