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by: Vrest Orton
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 697.1
EAN: 9780911469172
ISBN: 0911469176
Label: 'Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc.'
Manufacturer: 'Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc.'
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: January 01, 1969
Publisher: 'Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc.'
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Sales Rank: 193370
Studio: 'Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc.'
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Since its original publication in 1969 by Yankee, Inc.,Vrest Orton’s classic book on fireplace design has gone through numerous printings and has brought about a revival of the Rumford fireplace. The basic principles that Count Rumford set forth in 1795 describe the construction of a large shallow fireplace which does not smoke and which throws out much more heat than many of today’s fireplaces which send too much of the heat up the chimney. This new edition contains some practical notes by Wally Leeds, a mason in Tunbridge,Vermont who builds Rumford fireplaces today.
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Rating:  - The Forgotten Art of Building a Good Fireplace.
Thank you Mr. Orton for this much needed book. It has what we need to know about building a good fireplace and how the other designs fall short. This book has helped drive a movement toward the construction of this type of fireplace.
There are 2 houses owned by my relatives that had Rumford style fireplaces built in the 2nd quarter of the 1800's. One of them had the livingroom fireplace rebuilt in the 1940's and later replaced by a room intruding wood stove, neither change ever worked to ... Read More
Rating:  - More of a pamphlet than a book
I had hoped for something a bit thicker than the credit card I ordered it with. Don't expect a book with much in it. Look elsewhere for detailed plans. This only has a few conceptual sketchs that could be shown on a single page.
Rating:  - More blueprints, less politics please.
I was looking forward to reading about exactly how to build a Count Rumsford fireplace, long acknowledged to be the most efficient in terms of heat produced and wood used. There were some scattered practical descriptions and a couple of diagrams, but most of the book was an indictment of the 'liberal' politics of Rumsford's contemporaries and today's liberals, that kept the famous Tory - who was a Royalist who went to Britain during the American Revolution - from getting all the credit he deserved ... Read More
Rating: - Very simple concept to much biography
The fireplace design is very simple. However the author spent much of the book lamenting the fact that history has almost forgotten Benjamin Thomas (Count Rumford)yet fondly remembers Benjamin Franklin. The former being a King Henry III loyalist. I don't think history should forget him or his design, I just don't know if this book is the best place to remember Count Rumford. At least not to the degree of detail set in this book. Otherwise it is a short read and informational.
Rating: - A nice book, but flawed data was used.
A Rumford fireplace is a design artifact of functional beauty: maximizing radiant heat, while minimizing smoke.
The Rumford achieves the first, with a tall, wide, shallow firebox with widely splayed covings.
The second by laminar flow through the throat. Laminar flow is a non-turbulent, streamlined flow. In the Rumford fireplace the front flow layer is cool air, the rear flow layer is hot. The two key features of Rumford's design which produce laminar flow are 1) the rounded ... Read More
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