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HVAC

HVAC:

Three Challenges to

Challenge Engineers

By Tom Ewing © Vilhelm / Adobe Stock “On the 27th of July, 1850, I sailed from Baltimore in the ship Nonantum, of

Boston, (Bates, master,) bound to San Francisco. In the ship's hold was stowed 1,050 tons of coal. The second morning after the commencement of the storm, smoke had been discovered between decks. The alarming truth instantly ? ashed upon our minds. The gas that originated from the coal had generated ? re. They next proceeded to close the hatches, and caulked every seam tightly, in the hope of arresting the progress of the ? re it was impossible to extinguish.” - Incidents On Land and Water, or Four Years On the Paci? c Coast.

D.B. Yates, Boston, J. French and Company, 1857.

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