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Rare Books: Technology

Descriptions of the University of Manitoba's Rare Books Collection as well as educational resources available to those studying related fields.

Civil engineering

Creator / Imprint Title Call Number
Leybourn, William, (London : Printed by E Flesher for George Sawbridge, 1674.) The compleat surveyor : containing the whole art of surveying of land, by the plain table, circumferentor, theodolite, peractor, and other instruments : with divers kinds of mensurations, and matters pertinent to a work of this nature ... / by William Leybourn, philomathematicus. TA544 .L49 1674

Building construction

Creator / Imprint Title Call Number
Franklin, Benjamin, (London : I and J Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1793.) Observations on smoky chimneys, their causes and cure : with considerations on fuel and stoves : illustrated with proper figures / by Benjamin Franklin. TH2284 .F83 1793
Gauger, Nicolas, (Cosmopoli : sn, 1714.) La mechanique du feu, ou, L'art d'en augmenter les effets, & d'en diminuer la dépense : contenant le traité de nouvelles cheminées qui échauffent plus que les cheminées ordinaires & qui ne sont point sujettes à fumer &c / par Mr. G***. TH7425 .G38 1714
Gauger, Nicolas, (London : J Senex and E Curll, 1715.) Fires improv'd : being a new method of building chimneys so as to prevent their smoaking : in which a small fire shall warm a room better than a much larger made the common way : with the manner of altering such chimneys as are already built, so that they shall perform the same effects / written in French by Monsieur Gauger ; made English and improved by J.T. Desaguliers. TH7425 .G3813 1715
Gauger, Nicolas, (London : J Senex and E Curll, 1736.) 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 : and the method of altering such chimnies as are already built, so that they shall perform the same effects / by Monsieur Gauger ; made English from the French original by J.T. Desaguliers. TH7425 .G3813 1736
Rumford, Benjamin, (Dublin : Printed by and for RE Mercier and Co, 1796.) An essay on chimney fire-places : with proposals for improving them, to save fuel, to render dwelling-houses more comfortable and salubrious, and effectually to prevent chimnies from smoking : illustrated with engravings / by Benjamin Count of Rumford ... TH7425 .R85 1796