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The principle of its construction is that generally adopted in the baths erected under the late Mr. Bartholomew's direction, viz. a furnace with a coil of thin iron flue-pipes, radiating, in a measure, a certain amount of heat directly into the hot rooms.
Other methods of heating the air, besides those mentioned, include coils of iron flue-pipes in a brick chamber a principle that has been frequently adopted in the past and plain cylindrical iron radiating stoves, such as employed at the Hammam in Jermyn Street. In the latter plan, however, a great expense is created by the large number of furnace-fires to be kept constantly burning.
When work is more conveniently held to the machines, the latter are adapted to reach it whether presented vertically or horizontally, or with one arm inside of it, as with boilers and flue-pipes.
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