| RefNo | AP/20/17/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'An experimental inquiry into the modes of warming and ventilating apartments' by Andrew Ure |
| Date | 1836 |
| Description | Ure discusses warming and ventilating apartments for 'the comfort and health of their inmates', and makes reference to research into the conditions of cotton mills, factories and the Houses of Parliament. The paper focuses on the ventilation of the 'long room' of Custom House [London]. He ultimately recommends heating rooms with steam pipes for the health of their occupants. Includes one page of figures separate to the text
Subject: Environmental engineering
Received 2 June 1836. Read 16 June 1836.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An experimental inquiry into the modes of warming and ventilating apartments'. |
| Extent | 50p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0263 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6810 | Ure; Andrew (1778 - 1857) | 1778 - 1857 |