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• The theory of chimnies and fire-places investigated : the principle of those recommended by Count Rumford, fully explained, and their Construction Improved: and a Great Improvement, on a Principle Very Little Known, and in a Manner Never Practised. To which is added, a method of preparing houses and Ships, at Little Expence, in such a manner, that, in of fire, it may be extinguished with the Utmost Ease and Certainty. By Thomas Danforth, Esq. Formerly a Fellow of the Corporation of Harvard University, at Cambridge, in America
  by: Danforth, Thomas
  Published: (1796)
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  by: Gauger, Nicolas
  Published: (1736)
• A new and useful improvement, offered to the publick [sic] : for constructing fire places & chimnies with horizontal funnels on a plan, which will save fuel, insure warm rooms, and preserve health, at a small expense
  by: Jenkins, John
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• The mechanism of fire made in chimneys : or, the art of improving the effects and diminishing the expences thereof. Containing a treatise of new-invented chimneys, that afford more Heat than the others, and are not subject to Smoak, &c. set forth in French by Monsr. Gauger: the entire work faithfully translated in English, from the last Paris-Edition, and Revis'd by several skilful Artists, so as to render it suitable to the Genius and Capacity of our workmen. To which is added, all the author's original draughts corrected and fairly engraved on copper-plates, with a large alphabetical table, explaining near Two Hundred Terms of Art, and other hard Words in the Treatise
  by: Gauger, Nicolas
  Published: (1716)
• Fires improved, or, A new method of building chimnies, so as to prevent their smoking : in which a small fire, shall warm a room much better than a large one made the common way
  by: Gauger, Nicolas
  Published: (1736)