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THIS small book is of the popular type setting forth in simple language the existing methods available for preventing domestic smoke. There is a useful foreword by Sir Napier Shaw, and four chapters by different authors. Solid fuels are dealt with by Dr. M. Fishenden, gas by Mr. F. W. Goodenough, electricity by Major F. H. Masters, and the general housewife's problem by Miss Bushell and Miss Gordon. The book should help those desirous of knowing what they can do to eliminate domestic smoke.
Home Fires without Smoke: a Handbook on the Prevention of Domestic Smoke.
Edited by Cyril Elliott Marion FitzGerald. Pp. xvi + 59. (London: Ernest Bein, Ltd., 1926.) 3s. 6d. net.
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OWENS, J. Home Fires without Smoke: a Handbook on the Prevention of Domestic Smoke . Nature 119, 812 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119812a0
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