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RefNoL&P/1/388
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Of heating rooms by steam in pipes' by William Cook
Date1745
DescriptionContains a diagram. Also contain a note giving a 'soldier's advice to a sailor'

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A proposal for warming rooms by the steam of boiling water conveyed in pipes along the walls: and a method of preventing ships from leaking, whose bottoms are eaten by the worms'

Read 2 May 1745
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
Digital imagesView item on Science in the Making
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1744.0079
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