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...ventilation they have built two man-size fans, controlled by carbon monoxide detectors, air analyzers, and ink recorders. The ventilating chimney to the surface was one of the hardest parts...
Thirty-six hours later, Presbrey was passing Minneapolis' Sheridan Hotel when a 90-mile-an-hour gale knocked a 65-ft. chimney onto the hotel, injuring four people. Grabbing the Speed Graphic he always carries in his car ("Photographers are never around when you need them"), Reporter Presbrey was shooting pictures when the ambulances arrived...
Smoke from its stacks and its chimney pots, ash from its blast furnaces hung over its head in a never-dissipated cloud. Smoke curled even from the gashes in its hillsides, where fire burned internally along the coal seams...
Machines & Emancipation. In 1804, one George Smart invented a chimney-sweeping machine which made it unnecessary for human sweeps to climb the flues, but it was 1819 before a reform act passed the House of Commons. The House of Lords killed it with the admonition of one peer "to leave reforms of this kind ... to the moral feeling of perhaps the most moral people on the face of the earth...
Hearth & Home. In London, Alexander Richards, suing for divorce, charged that his wife made life so unbearable that he took a job at the British embassy in Moscow after she had stuffed his best suit up the chimney and snipped the bristles off his shaving brush. In Atlanta, a divorce plaintiff reportedly told the judge that he was already separated from his wife: "She fired at me five times, your honor. I started separating on the first shot. By the fifth shot, your honor, I had completely separated." In London, Raymond Steiner was granted a divorce after charging that...