Word: window
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bury's patent window ventilator which admits fresh air and allows no draft...
Bury's patent window ventilator which admits fresh air and allows no draft...
Bury's patent window ventilator which admits fresh air and allows no draft...
Bury's patent window ventilator which admits fresh air and allows no draft...
...White said that he was himself interested in some scheme for bettering the tenement houses in New York. The effort was a complete success simply as a business scheme. The improved buildings are built around a large interior court in such a manner that every room has a window. The buildings are arranged with outside stair cases, to avoid the dangers and discomforts of a huge wooden fire blower in the inside of the house and to give every family the domestic privacy secured by a front door of its own and no connection with the other occupants...