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- From: pyuaq@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr G S Sutherland)
- Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
- Subject: Re: Chelseq Quinn Yarbro - Roman novel
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 15:09:55 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- References: <1992Nov12.165822@IASTATE.EDU> <christ.721808955@crash.cts.com>
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- In article <christ.721808955@crash.cts.com> christ@crash.cts.com (Chris
- Trichel) writes:
-
- +..... I can't say anything about the heated floors other
- +than it's entirely possible for it to have existed then...
- +i mean look at the chinese and their years of having
- +inventions before the same inventions occured elsewhere
- +(interesting fact: the chinese invented the water clock before
- +any other culture but dismissed it as a novelty)
-
- The Romans did indeed have heated floors, they worked by having a cavity
- beneath the floor. Somewhere in the cellar of the house there would be a
- furnace (stoked by slaves) which generated hot air that then was allowed
- to circulate through these spaces, and thus heat the house.
-
- Graeme Sutherland.
-
-