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quote_text: "The Rumford grate, introduced at the end of the 18th century, rapidly became fashionable in Britain: perhaps unsurprisingly, as large glass windows and the disappearance of wall cloths must have made Georgian houses very cold. With coal now relatively cheap, rich households soon installed grates in almost every room. But the massive airflow up the chimneys increased draughts, so by the mid-19th-century draperies were again popular (Panton 1890)"
author: "first approach to retrofit | Buildings & Cities"
url: "https://journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10.5334/bc.572?ref=scopeofwork.net#B47"
article_title: "Learning to sail a building: a people"
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