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, hops, gun-powder, &c. and for many other useful purposes. Which was read before the Royal Society in May 1741. By Stephen Hales ...
Stephen Hales (1677-1761)
Category
Books
Date
1743
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3050492.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx,172p., [2] folded leaves of plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Bound with: Hales, Stephen. "An account of a useful discovery to distill double the usual quantity of sea-water" (London, 1756). Identified in 1768 catalogue: M.8 (2 in later hand).. Provenance: Bookplate (pasted over earlier plate): George Harry Grey (1737-1819) after 1768; anonymous armorial variant 2. Franks 12841.. Binding: 18th century sprinkled calf binding; double gilt fillet border on boards; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label.
Makers and roles
Stephen Hales (1677-1761)