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Amazing.
We forget how the history and evolution of the technology of the furnace runs
side by side with the history and evolution of weapons, swords, pottery, glassware,
steel, alloys and just the simply historic significance of something as simple as "bellows".
This is an amazing book chock full of serious research and ahead of it's time.
It really got my mind thinking. =)
Contents
HEAT AND HEATING 1 Introduction | 1 |
Origin and Production of Fire | 4 |
Fuel in Antiquity | 13 |
Heating the Home | 14 |
Roman Hypocausts | 30 |
Speculations and Experiments on Hypocausts | 43 |
Fire and Food | 58 |
Industrial Furnaces | 68 |
Snowcooled Drinks | 113 |
Vessels for Cooling Drinks | 116 |
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LIGHT 1 Introduction | 122 |
Lamps in Prehistoric Europe | 126 |
Torch and Taper | 128 |
The Candle | 133 |
Preclassical Lamps | 142 |
Classical Lamps | 143 |
Roman Lamp Factories | 159 |
Some Applications of Lights and Lamps | 166 |
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