Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-06
A New British InveDtiOn for Man.
80 .H'f" ufa curing Ice. -

A London paper says: "Of course every
chemist knows dozen methods of freezing
water. The faultof the ordinary recipes is
that freezing powders can never produce
more than little film or crust of ice. Re-
Gently, however, most efficient and satiS-
factory process has been patented by Mr..
Edward Welch, Of Harrow, one of the
many able students turned out by the en-
gineering department of Kings College.
1t consists of an air pump with double ac-
tion, communicating to cylinder, with
cOncentric chambers surrounding the re-
ceptacle of the water to be frozen. The
water occupies the centrai space; next is a
circular chamber, containing ether; then a
third. filled with powdered charcoal; then a
fourth called the cOndensing chamber and
finally, coil of small tubing inside lar
ger pipe wound round the last space. The
arrangement is of necessity hard to COM
prehend withouta diagram, but the action
is SO simple that it will go far to explain
the nature of this most ingenious machine.
The pump, when set in motion, produces
q vacuum in the ether chamber; !; the ether
rises in vapor toward the pump through
one OF the union pipes, producing great
degree of cold; compression pipe from
the pump forces it back to the condensing
chamber, and also through the small tu-
bling around this; and while the compress
sion reduces it again to the liquid form, a
stream of water through the outer pipe of
the condensing coil carries off the heat
thus engendered.
meantime the partition of powdered
charcoal most efectually cuts off all pos
sible communication of the disengaged
heat to the ether chamber or the water
which is to be frozen. There is a recepta-
Gle fitted with foat-valve, which takes
the ether, now reliquied, and discharges
it back again into the vacuum chamber, so
that once set in motion, not particle OF
the costly spirit escapes from the machine.
1t rises in vapOr, freezing the water; Is
compressed back again ; reliquified; its call
oric distracted; that caloric taken away al
together by the ontf1ow of water; and the
Transformed var or then restol ed to its origi-
nal duty, with an unbroken and most unfail-
ing succession. The principle is perfect,
and the practice so good that in about q
quarter of an hour cylinder of solid ice
is produced; /; nor is there any limit to the
manufacture, except labor; for the ether
never diminishes. The inventor purposes
D to simplify his pump and work it by an or
binary head of water, when the kitchen
tap of dwelling house would accomplish
every step of the process except lifting the
ice out and putting it on the table. AS a
: method of supplying real block ice-espe-
cially for hospitals, foreign stations and
out-of-the-way places-the machine is as
useful an application of high scientific
knowledge as could be seen."
A good deal of surprise has been felt at
the sudden breaking off OF the intended
marriage between the King of Bavaria and
the Duchess Sophia. A few days ago they
appeared in the same box at the Munich
theater, and it was noticed that the King
gave his Jfdnce bouquet. and seemed par
ticularly attentive. Everybody then
prophesied that the wedding would be very
soon. 1t is now said, however, that the
match was given up because the bride
groom elect, so far from displaying the
eagerness usual with persons in his situa-
tion, desired to postpone his happiness for
two years, in order, we presume, to enjoy
the pleasures of hope. The bride that was
to be did not sympathize with her fance in
tn is, and so there was tiff, and finally a
definite rupture. The King, however, has
given notice that he will not withdraw the
dowry which he had intended to give to a
number of young maidens on their mar
riage.-English Paper.