New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-17
PHILLIPS ANNuuLAroR

To M Editor % ae IrDtnc
SIR: Having read an account of " Phil
lips Annhiator," IN your paper of Saturday, from
The pen of the Newly ORR Correspondent Of the Bos-
ton Transcripf | wish to offer few remark, on the
merits of SAID instrument
Philips Annihllaior has been scfoTe the English
public nearly two years, but am not aware that 1t
has ever been tried at An accidental hre. Numerous
experiments have been made at the Nauxhall Gas
Works and elsewhere, which are SAID TO have been
attended with considerable success, but there Is a
wide difference between extnguIshing FIRE IN md
day, hen YOU have made all the arrangements Tor
It's extinction and taken every precautlon 10 insure
success and exclude the possibility OF casualty, and
extingulShing IRE occurring accidentally. when
YOU have had no chance OF taxing any precautions
forts extinction, and more especially as that possibly
occurs a. pfdnlgbt instead OF Utffgy.
NOtWlth landing the statements published 10 sew
eml English newspapers, I believe that there Il
general mi.trIst among well-iniormed people as 10
the Truth OF the statements put forward ~ % what
the Aun.hUaior viii accomplish. II Is stated that
The gas thrown Oui envelopes the person hplh-
ing the machine IN tapor which IS breahcd readily.
and al The same time drives the names away anu
euing.,hcs them" Now n this is really true u fol
low, that Mr. Philips has made great discovery
for rom my youth upward | have always been
taught that any ~ rGDor that eringnsbfs pane -
Incompatible trtfh his, whether II De human OF not
Hence the very common AMI necessary precautiOn
of lowering lighted candle into wells mines, ore"
CTs watts. and cellars that nave been closed any
length of time, previous Ia any one Fenturng down,
and II the candle D.. cktngulshed, II ls not safe 10
enter but # u continues 10 burn 70 IS perfectly safe.
MANY lives have been sacrificed from the negleci oi
thi. rule precautOn. The rofi0ndIs of All thi' u
smpl. enough Fire cannot exist except M presence
OF owen gas nor can life exist without tht pre-
sencc OF Tie same material Al least sucA ~ The
universally acknowledged fact, which has never been
known 10 iail when tried H. then, Mr. philips an.
nlhilator evolves a gas that eKtngushes name ana
vet can be Ofcathed with safety, he has discoveries
some gas Of which we are A. yet ignorant ofOne
should be glad 10 have u proven, that may enter
atiWelhng IN flames with an annlhlatOf ana cause u
10 extlnsush the flames, without, 40 the same tno,
endangenng our own or any one elscs NE VINO
might be- exposed 10 rs yapOr but should mol De 1is
posed 20 try the experiment on myself unll the i''t
had been abundantiy proved by experiment. on some
Of the brute creation.
From the statements have read, Tie gas or yapor
emitted BIZ the "annihildior' Is Car0Onlc acid gas
and the yapor Of water either Or both Of WHOM Is
competent 20 destroy hfe IN quick style without
doubt such an apparatus might De used with aiyln-
tagc and success ~ closed space VI building, when
no person was inside, provided the apparatus j. large
enough 10 give of an unlimited supply oi yapor or
gas but until as merits are much more iully de.
gelOped than they have yet been % Iht people oi
London 10 Will never superscfs The smallest engine
made II you can PRINT tins may help 70 hasten inc
solution III the difficulties here brOached
/ am yours, &c. ;" B