The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-21
FOUR DEG. BELOW ZERO
Perpetual Fail or Winter Weather Prom
issd-Hot Air Turned Into Cold.


10 death today" inquired u long
shoreman in Hamilton avenue, Brook
Ign, yesterday, OF perspiring Iri-
bunc reporter. The latter expressed
wi lingness to try the experiment up
to acertain point. Come along then"
was the reply. The reporter soon found
himself on the ground floor of Pinto's
big grain warehouse. In an apartment
which stretched from the avenue to the
water front was another containing
$500 cubic feet of space. The room
was carefully boarded. The entrance
to it was by door about six inches
thick. Through this door, at short in
tervals, several men darted suddenly.
Their temperance was as sudden as
their exit. Before they disappeared
they perspired, as the temperature of
the engine-room, from which the cor
pulent door led, was 90o. On their
return they were shivcring.
mo, they haven't got ague," replied
the 'longshoreman in answer to'a ques-
ton he saw concealed in the reporters
eye. 1--WE been there myself, and be-
fore l was in five minutes ! wondered
why I'd forgotten to bring an overcoat
along"
AS a man with lantern was about
to open the mysterious door again the
reporter fell in line, and in a moment
stood in darkness, made visible by the
feeble flame of the lantern. The air
was not cold; it was freezing. A whin-
ing noise was heard. That is the cold
air coming in said the guide. The
reporter mounted q chair and held his
hand against the mouth of siX-inch
sheet-iron pipe cts just 40 below
zero where your hand is now" said the
man with the lantern. The reporter
did not consider it necessary to ask for
an affidavit to this effect. as in less than
two minutes his fingers felt as if they
were frozen and he longed for the
balmy breezes of spring or even the
scorching heat of summer.
"How is it accomplished he asked
of knot of men who gathered about
him on seeing gilt-edged notebook
appear.
The man with the lantern stepped
forward and said: 1T is a process by
which the air can be cooled to any de-
gree you want down to 80 : below zero,
or by which ice can be made without
the aid of chemicals.
"What do you use TO accomplish
thispn
''The atmosphere.
The inventor said that he had spent
seven years and $4,000 in perfecting
his plan, and had at last succeeded.
The room has been built for the expert
ment The machinery used was an
eight-horse power engine. Connected
with the engine is series of three-incli
iron pipes. The atmosphere is sucked
into one of these pipes, and is carried
through some hundreds of feet. Thence
it passes through coil of copper pipe
winch is immersed in water, into Il
water-trap, where the condensation is
drawn off. Then it is carried, cool and
dry, into an eXpounder, from which il
is forced into the required place at its
normal temperature. l5o. but dry.
40 chemicals are used in the process,
according to the inventor, and several
ice-frcezing machine makers who were
present seemed satisfied that such was
the case.
at means GOODNESS whenever YOU
want it and are willing to pay for it,"
said the inventor. "A machine for
cooling hotel, freezing its meats, pre-
pairing its water-bottlcs, and making
winter or fall out of summer if desired
oan be put up for $4,000. 1t is only
question of time when steamers, hotels,
theatres, concert-halls, etc, will be
cooled in this way. 1t will make ice
that can be sold with II profit at dol
lar ton. 1t will save brewers hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, and will
never run short of fuel as long as the
world lasts. 1t feeds on the atmosphere
and gets its meals for nothing"
The machine took an hour and fifteen
minutes to reduce the temperature of
room from 49, to A :. and two hours
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