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    The above book put on the site today, astounded me, of the knowledge known on the subject at that time - 1874 !!

    Even central heating by waterpipes, the paragraph follows here;-

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    Instead of letting the heat away into dead walls, we should let it into one or two other rooms, and instead of letting so much heat out at the top of the chimney, make it heat one or two apartments in different storeys. This has actually been done by a clergyman near Dumfries. 'Then, there is the heating of a whole house by means of hot air pipes, by means of hot water, or by means of steam. The kitchen fire, with any of these, would render any other fire entirely unnecessary in a large house; and what people would in former years have scouted as un-British, &c., will, in the year 1875, be adopted as eminently practical and necessary, and we will wonder at our own slavish conformity to a wasteful custom.
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    We think that central heating, was 20th centuary !!

    Ranald
    Last edited by Ranald; 18 December 2012, 12:05.

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    Mind you I believe the Romans had a form of central heating Ranald.

    Alastair

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    • #3
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      They most certainly did. Hot air underfloor type.
      Sandy

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      • #4
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        Oh dear..... I had forgotten about that !

        Ranald

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          Too bad it didn't catch on with the general populace of Scotland until recent years. My fondest winter memories of my youth were the delightful patterns Jack Frost wove on the window of my bedroom, and dragging my icy clothes under the blankets to warm them - sometimes even trying to don them while snug in my cocoon!! Those were the days!!!

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