New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20
Il NEW INTENTION.
PORTABLE EQUALIzlNG NO PRESSURE STEAM

cnurcnes, stores lectIlre-r0oms theaters business
Offices, &C., is now receiving attention among
thinking people than ever before. The enormous
and wholly unremuneratye labor, and the numerous
disagreeabe features constantly affecting health and
comfort attendant on the use of crude fuels have
long been recognized evils Of the first magnitude
In this city alone the constant labor of more than
forty thousand persons is wasted in performing the
disagreeable drudgery connected with the burning
of coal in CRATES, stoves ranges, &c. Millions of
tuns of fuel containing poisonous gases and leaving
residual impurities the daily removal OF which re-
quires the employment of hundreds of men, horses
and carts are consumed; the liberated gases fill our
rooms with insdous foes to health tuns of impalpa
BILE dust mngle with everything we eat, drink wear,
or use and threefour least of the heat evolved
is entirely wasted in warming cold fues.
and in imperfect arrangements to econo-
mize and use just enough of it when and where it
is required. AT the same time, the atmosphere
that is warmed becomes vitated by constantly
coming in contact with red-hot iron, thus receiving
an unequal and therefore unnatural temperature,
very prejudicial to health and comfort.
To relieve ourselves of these ntoerable nuisances
by substituting processes that shall enable US to
Danish CRATES, stoves, and hot-air furnaces, and
nearly all of the present cumbrous and costly devices
used for warming, is so desirable that it becomes q
matter Of great public concern. The man who sue
ceeds in accomplishing this result will be hailed as
public benefactor, and worthy to rank with Wood,
Whitney. Fulton, Morse, and Howe.
The use of candles lamps, and other movable de-
vices for lighting involves similar waste of labor
with attendant diseOmforts, to say nothing Of tho
constant danger Of accident from their negligent use
In our cities and larger villages, coalgas has, to
great extent, superseded their among the welto-
do portion of the people; but the cost of the gas
supplied is beyond the means of poorer people. To
remedy this evil and others peculiar to coal gas
dinarily used, is now taxing the inventive ingenuity
of thousands, and attracting the attention of
capitalists and phianthropists. Millions of CAPT
tai are being invested in costly practical expert
ments in this direction, which give every
promise of substantial improvement. Ventilation is
so Immediately involved with warming and lighting
that it must receive its corresponding share of at
tention, and, with the march of improvement inevi-
table to both it must also be improved.
The initial probem-How shall we keep our dwell
lngs at temperature varying but few degrees from
Summer heat during the colder months of the year,
without trouble and at a minimum costf-seems to
have ut last been solved in the construction of a
portable steam heating apparatus, in which the
smallest amount OF heat is converted into the great
est amount of warmth or, in other words, intensity
of heat is converted continuously into quantity of
by raising small, uniform quantity of water into
steam at about the pressure of the atmosphere, or at
a temperature little above the boiling point of
water, and recondensing it continuously around
a series of tubes open at both ends through which
the cold air near the floor rises constantly receiving
an increase of warmth Is put into continuous circula
ton, and passed and repassed through the steam
heated tubes until the proper degree of warmth in
every part of the is secured. The thermometer
indicates invariably that there is soon but slight
difference in the temperature Of the warmed at
the floor and ceiling most distant part To produce
this result uniformly with coagas, carbureted air,
or non-illuminating heating gas, costs less 1T Is
claimed than to keep the room warm in the ordinary
way with coal while it will almost entirely relieve
us of all the filthy denominations Of coal-fres, and
their attendant drudgery and discomfort.
Croton water is now supplied to our dwellings in
one set of pipes, coal gas for lighting another and
it is proposed to add still another set of pipes to
bic us to use oxygen gas in lighting. Why not then,
lay down pipes for supplying heating gas, which may
now be produced, il is claimed, land experiments
seem to sustain the cam,l at the rate of more than
5000 feet from the tun of coal consumed in the pro-
cess of its manufacture That cooking, warming,
and small manufacturing, arc to be all performed. in
cities and large towns especially, with manufactured
fuel seems to be certain. Already heavy capitalists
have entered upon experiments in this city to test in
the most thorough practical. and comprehensive
manner the feasibility Of laying system of mains
TO supply cheap non-illumnatng gas for the various
purposes Of heating. This gas may also be used when
desired for lighting by tho process now successfully
in use in THE TRBUSE establishment. Should these
experiments lead to the general introduction of low
priced heating gas, TO be supplied by the public
authorities or by great chartered companies, as the
lot fu4u oil
and kindred purposes improved health and comfort,
with economy Of time and labor, will be secured 10
all and the new system Of no-presSure Steamboat
ing which we have examined at No. 5l2 Broadway,
will doubtless rival the sewing -machine in popularity
and usefulness This method seems to be adapted to
small OF large SCALE and 10 nearly all situations ana
can be used with almost any kind OF fueL for
isolated country residences. II may be used Ill conhec
ton with air gas or heating gas, which may be manu-
featured in small or large quantities. 1t Is asserted, at
less than onefourth the cost of that OF coagas The
total saving by the portable equaZing stove. using
common coa-gas as n fuel utilizing its warmth just
when aud where desred-thc heater being movable
with the fuel applied through flexible tube. SO that
it may be turned on or off at a moments notice-will
be more than equal to any possible cost.
The grand error in tho present system OF
warming our Observation-Disclosures DO by such
means in great degree remeded, with the happest
results TO health and comfort IL will also diminish
the necessity for the presence and attendance of I'M
skilled help Accidents from tho use of such no
pressure equalizng heaters are impossible ana the
temperature is most congenal, the air being warmed
to but about 40 degrees at any time and IL is con-
stantly circulated and diused throughout the apart
ment at about 20 degrees. The ease with when tho
heat may bo regulated especially when gas or liquid
fuoI IL used is one oflts greatest recommendations,
as the supply of heat may be adjusted or wholly
Turned of instantly. The change from thehigh tenn