This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...more fresh air, and by this advice is not meant the outside air, such as comes to us within our homes, baked by the average heating apparatus, but clean, pure, and humid air, such as an out-of-door climate provides. There is no form of artificial warming apparatus by which this ideal condition may be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...more fresh air, and by this advice is not meant the outside air, such as comes to us within our homes, baked by the average heating apparatus, but clean, pure, and humid air, such as an out-of-door climate provides. There is no form of artificial warming apparatus by which this ideal condition may be produced and sustained so well as by a hot air warming system properly installed. The average steam or hot water warming apparatus provides only for heat. The introduction of a supply of fresh air is generally overlooked entirely, or when introduced at all is only provided for in the homes of well-to-do people, who have ample means to pay the increased expense of installation and maintenance of such an apparatus. As we have said before, it is by reason of the moisture in the air that it carries and retains heat, and the dryer the air, the more difficult it is to heat. The air is capable of carrying a large amount of moisture. This may be noticed during a-fog and again by the dew deposited during the night at certain seasons of the year. In tropical countries the dew deposited is frequently so heavy that the eaves drip water, and if this condition did not exist the tropics would not be habitable. A year or two ago, when discussing the importance of airmoistening, the writer remarked somewhat as follows: "The process of refining or manufacturing raw material into a finished product has been carried on for many centuries. Had somebody stated to the architects of ancient Rome, or to the architects and constructors of our own national capitol, or of our more modern buildings, that in the twentieth century we ivould be manufacturing climate, they would all alike have disbelieved the statement, and considered that the speaker was bereft of...
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