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Fires improv'd: being a new method of building chimneys, so as to prevent their smoaking: : in which a small fire, shall warm a room better than a much larger made the common way. With the manner of altering such chimneys as are already built, so that they shall perform the same effects

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1715.
Call number: 714413
Creator: Gauger, Nicolas (approximately 1680-1730)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 16 cm
Associated people: Desaguliers, J. T. (1683-1744,)
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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