ESSAYS

ON THE

ECONOMY OF FUEL, &c.

ESSAYS

ON THE

ECONOMY OF FUEL,

AND

MANAGEMENT OF HEAT.

ESSAY FIRST,

In Three Parts.

PART I.—ON THE EFFECTS OF HEAT, MEANS OF MEA-
SURING IT, FUEL, &c.

PART II.-ON HEATING MILLS, DWELLING-HOUSES, AND

PUBLIC BUILDINGS, BY STEAM.

PART III.-ON DRYING AND HEATING BY STEAM.

BY ROBERTSON BUCHANAN,

CIVIL ENGINEER.

Glasgow:

PRINTED BY JAMES HEDDERWICK AND CO.

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, & ORME, LONDON; J. ANDERSON,
AND J. BALLANTYNE & CO. EDINBURGH; BRASH & REID,

J. & A. DUNCAN, J. SMITH & SON, M. OGLE,

G. LUMSDEN, W. TURNBULL, AND

J. GREENLEES, GLASGOW.

1810.

PREFACE.

THE favourable reception given by the public, to an Essay on the Warming of Mills and other Buildings by Steam, which I published in 1807*, and the many additional facts on the subject, which, since that period, have been determined, and the further application of this agent to drying as well as heating, in various processes in calico-printing and other manufactures, have induced me to think of publishing an enlarged edition of that Essay.

Reflecting on this subject, and considering the materials I had collected on other practical applications of heat, it occurred to me, that I might extend my plan to a series of Essays on the Economy of Fuel and Management of Heat.

* For an account of this Pamphlet, see Philosophical Magazine, Nicholson's Philosophical Journal, Monthly Magazine, and various other periodical publications for 1808.

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