Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-02-23

not iall TO lead TO a great extension
OF its use. 1t appears, that steam
conveyed in pipes nearly half a mile
in length has suffered at the ex-
tremity no sensible diminution of
its heat; consequently hot steam
may be diffused for purposes Of
heating houses, in a radius from
the boiler of at least half mile
and perhaps even of two, three, or
more miles. Here then is a prin-
ciple by which heat is conveyed
from public boiler or magazine,
where it is generated, to any desi-
rable distance and thence may be
conveyed into houses for the pur-
pose of keeping the rooms at any
temperature, just as gas for Light,
or water for culinary purposes, is
now conveyed into them. We thus
diyest ourselves at once of coal or
wood fires, of all their smoke, filth,
and dangers and also ofchimnies,
CRATES, and their accessories. In
cost the ratio is very high in favor
of the heat of steam, as ten to one,
and twenty to one, according TO
circumstances. In effective heat,
in wholesomeness. in endowment.
and in luxury, there can be no
comparison. Thus bushel Of
refuse coal, and cinders, costing
eight pence or a shilling, will boil
a copper for fifteen hours, and gen.
crate steam enough to keep ten or
twelve rooms in a uniform and e.
qually dlffused temperature of six
ty or seventy degrees.
Of course it is the same whether
these rooms are in one house, six
houses, or twelve houses * and
hence the incalculable advantages
Of this application of steam. Hous
es, manufactures, schools, church.
es, harnlets, villages, cities, and
even the great metropolis itself,
may thus be heated from one or
more boilers, or from stations, as
may be most convenient. Smoke,
the nuisance of towns, will thus
at once be exterminated; because
that which is generated at the pub
llc boilers may easily be consumed
or condensed. We thus also clear
society of the stigma and the crimes
OF chimney sweeping and dimin-
Ish the hazards and horrors of those
CONGREGATIONS which are as dan
gerous to our property as to our
lives. Bristol paper.
1t is proved, by experiment, that ev.
cry superficial foot of metallic hollow cy-
lioder will heat $50 cubic feet of air. at
90, 20, or 80 degrees, as may be desira-
bic. A cylinder feet high, and 10 inch
es IN diameter, that is, having Is feet on
the outside, aud l6 feet on the inside, will
therefore heat 5000 cubic feet of air, or
a room 80 feet square, and feet high.
1t appears, also, that small boiler will
keep a such cylinders at 70 deg. of heat
and, therefore, will heat twelve rooms that
are 8 feet square and feet high.
From the DunsjTies and Galloway Courier.
The WEATHER.--The winter has hith.
erto Seen as remarkable for its unusual
as the summer was for its
warmth.-On the first day of December
we see the flowers of spring 10 full blow in
our gardens, and the fields clothed in the
fresh and delicate verdure of May. Some
striking instances of the genial influence
OF the season, both on the animal aud vegi-
table tribes, have been communicated to
us. The thrush and the black-bird are
heard from the hedges of unfaded privoi,
joining their mellow notes with those Of
the red-breast and the rocks have for
several weeks. been rebuilding their nests.
as If the winter were already passed, and
the season OF love had returned. In the
vegetable creation the Indications are not
less extraordinary. On Tuesday last, a
dish OF strawberries, Of very fine favour,
was gathered at RockhaIl, from an open
border, fully as large and as ripe as any
produced 10 the summer months; and on
the same day, two mowers were employ
ed on the Glebe Of Rulhwell, in cutting
down a crop Of new hay which had
sprung up with an astonishing rapidity and
luxuriance after an excellent crop of bar.
ley, although that barley had been cut
close to the ground with the sythe. We
are also assured that second crop OF
qOosherries fully fnrmed are no,r 10 he