New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-14

EXPERIMENTS YESTERDAY APTEREO0E-EGGS AND OYS-
TIERS COOKED BY sUPERHBATED STEAM IN 0SB
H0UR-wHAT WAS PROVED AND WHAT REMAINS
UEPRovBD-A RATHER UEsATisFACTORY PER
PoRMAECB.
The valuo Of heat as a disinfectant which has long
been known and almost universally acknowledged probably
suggested the notion Of applying By superheaed
steam We believe The gentlemen who recently made the
pemen.s at Seguin Point with which the readers OF HE
TRIBUNE familiar and who Thursday repeated them at
the Engine House OF the metropolitan Fire Company No. l.
make claim favor OF disinfecng agent save
Of applying heat the animal vegetable life or
poison they desire destroy Very little positively known
concerning the temperature that necessary for this purpose
and would be manfesY unwse lay much stress upon
single Of experiments needs no practical demon
raon day prove that heat applied at proper empera
viii cook eggs and oysters that e will destroy both
animal and vegetable life; but the temperature that will de-
srOy the c0ntagiOn Of scartns yphus fever or cholera
remains yet definitely determined In regard to cloth
g 22 degrees seem TO be sufficient at Quarantine and the
Hesh Oce acts upon th notion WITH great success; Dnt
the quantity required for and vessels Gnd the means BY
which may DO applied TO furniture and walls appreciated
with poison sufficient degree 20 DESTROY the cOntagon
without detrment 10 the articles Infected Is not
positively known Payon subjected TIE spores OF oraneecO
Ored bead-mod Of Paris to moist temperature of 25 de-
without injury but at 6' degrees decomposition took
pace, and their vitality DESTROYED Edwards and COIN
that the seeds Of ebumn0us and archy plants would
stand temperature of 67 degrees while celull cryptic
cams were destroyed at lower temperature These
ments seem to show that spores VIII withstand greater ae
deal with IN the OF oontaeon Heat we be-
eye decomposes organic matter at 80 degrees but below
this temperature the changes that take place are PROBABLY
similar 10 the combustion produced b. the action Of chemical
agents process Of oIydaon. These things all wei
and OF yesterday only proved that
eggs and oysters wrapped IN dry blanket OF 10 thcknees
could cooked when exposed to temperature Of 100 dc
grees.
method by which this result achieved follows The
generated by Metropolitan Fire Engine No. l.
passed through coil Of tbreequarer inch pipe 900 feet long
into which OF carboc Gcd had previously been
poured While passing through this coil the steam heated
and aterward discharged close having Of
about $3.50 cubic feet Near the point where the steam
entered the tube carried the heat 20 Thermometer IN
adjoining room while another thermometer placed IN
similar position point about - feet distant from the FIRST
Sefrcgsterug thermometers accompanied BY some eggs ana
oysters wrapped in bsnkoOne the ,other dry
and placed the the dry blanket upon chair mmedi
aey the pipe from which the snperheated steam
discharged ana blanket TIE opposite side Of tue
Eggs aud oysters placed unfortunately and
loosely about the ROOM some newspapers were suspended
upon line with clothing the doors closed nd the
experiment began At2.5J the valves were opened and
the permitted T. enter the room. The following
table the temperature recorded every i've minutes by
the hermoetersh right hand column showing the degree
OF point furhes from that az Which the steam
entered the The second column counting from tho
le shoas the pressure marked by tho seagaHge which
moment the experiment began registered 10 POUNDS OF
steam