The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-12-01

the expense for manufacturingis but S. per
We saw this new process of making ice,
when the first experiment was made with the
model machine in New Orleans, in the year
1850. 1t then froze a bottle of champagne
wine solid in one of the hottest days Of July
in that climate. The invention is one capable
of various applications, and one that promises
to produce very important results, to the com
fort, convenience and profit Of the world
We know Of no recent invention that is like
ly to confer greater blessings on mankind. It
is the invention of the late DR.. John Gorrie,
of Appalachicola, Florida, a man Of extensive
requirements in science and mechanics. He
died few months ago, lamented by every
one who had ever known him; and in this
new process Of reducing the temperature Of a
given space down to any required degree Of
cold, he has left legacy to the world that
ought to make his name immortal as one Of
the benefactors of man. 1t is not properly a
machine, but process, operating in conformi
ty of we'll known laws. 1t is not confined to
making ice, but may be applied to thousand
daily requirements of life. 1t can be applied
to building of any size, properly arranged
for the purpose, and the interior of it be kept
at any given temperature for any given time.
For instance warehouse for the storage Of
fruit vegetables, butter, lard, meats, or any
article perishable by heat, and the whole build
ing can be kept at temperature Of any de-
gree that shall be necessary to preserve them,
in any climate. By this process pork and
beef can be slaughtered and preserved in the
tropics as well as in Canada. With slaughter
houses and packing rooms kept below the
freezing point, beef or pork can be put up in
Cuba or Texas, or on the Plains of Buenos
Ayres or Brazil. And the packing can be
carried on in our own climate in July as we'll
as January. A dwelling of any size-a hotel
as large as the St. Charles, or the st. Nicholas
in New York, may be prepared very much in
the manner in which dwellings are arranged
in Boston, to keep out the cold in winter,
with double doors and double windows, to
keep'out the heat in summer, and this new
process applied to reduce the interior temper
AZURE, and the whole building may be kept
through the hottest weather at any desirable
degree Of GOODNESS from 500 downwards, and
the whole expense will not be So per diem
When it shall come into general use, there
will be no necessity of running to Newport,
Cape May and Long Branch, to escape the heats
of July and August. With as much ease and
less expense than fashionable house is warm
sed in winter, il can be kept cool in summer.
=and the temperature regulated by registers
similar to those that now admit heat from the
furnace Think of the comfort of fashiona-
BILE lady occupying her elegant rooms at a de-
lightful temperature of 60 or 7Odegrees, while
the thermometer outside of them, ranged at
80 or 100 degrees-while her butter her
fruits, her vegetables and meats in the cellar.
were preserved at the freezing point Does
not one feel grateful to the inventor of such
comforts, for the pleasure of enjoying them
even in Imagination. But how much will it
raise the actual value of stock and lands in
Texas, Mexico-on the pampas of Brazil and
Buenos Ayres. How independent will it make
the shareholders of the South of the abolition
ice merchants of Boston?
But instead of indulging in contemplating
all the enjoyments we are to derive from it,
let US try and tell how it is all to be accom-
plished. Air when compressed gives out its
latent heat; when it again expands it absorbs
sensible heat. Thus the whole process is to
expel latent heat from the air, and introduce
the compressed through tubes into a building
or an apartment, and as it expands it absorb
the sensible heat of the room and lowers the
temperature. The whole arrangement con-
sists in placing two upright cylinders, with
pistonS and cross beam. Into one cylinder
the atmosphere is received, and as the piston
descends, it is compressed into one-third Its
volume, and is driven through a valve into a
reservoir, like steam boiler, of great strength
from the reservoir it passes to the other cyl
Under, and by its expansion drives the piston
upward which, by the cross beam, forces the
opposite cylinder down, thus rendering it al
most selfacting apparatus; for as force is ap,
piled to its compression, so is the expansive
power of the air in the opposite cylinder
Thus it requires to be only started and suff-
Cient power maintained to overcome friction
to keep it in perpetual motion. The expand
ed air from the second cylinder is led by pipes
into an apartment, from which the externa
air is excluded, partially or entirely, and as il
enters, it absorbs the sensible heat, and The
rapidity with which the temperature Of The
air is lowered is astonishing. In the space o
Ill IL. &c