Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16127

    Design of a furnace

    Date
    1660s
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p224
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 241mm
    width (page): 188mm
    Subject
    Description
    Design of a furnace and how to build and use it. In the papers of Robert Boyle.
    Transcription
    make the ashe hole ten inches high. 7 inches broad with a doore of 50 inches square. then iust under the grate, make the aire hole 5 inches square & 4 inches above the grate set the doore 5 inches wide & 7 high & let the fire place be 8 inches wide & 12 or 14 inches high. then set on the tunnel which must be at lest (sic) 6 inches wide with a register to govern the fire. you must also have a reigster in the aire hole to governe ye aire pleasure (sic).

    a. the ashe hole with the doore
    b. the fire hole with a register
    c. the grate
    d. a Foote of earth standing on the grate to set a crucible upon
    e. the furnace for fire
    f. the doore of the furnace
    g. the register above the fire
    1. the tunnel.
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Related fellows
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
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