, 1884-12-02
DOWN BELOW ZERO"
a Process by Which the Air Can
Be Cooled
E~ighty-Ffve Degrees Below Zero
Ice Made without Chemicals
"A Fortune In Artificial
Cold weather.

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slow would you like to freeze 70 death
to-dayF7 inquired a 'lo~ngshoreman in Hamil-
ton avenue, Brooklyn, Of a perspiring 70
porter. III latter expressed a willingness
to try the experiment up 10 a certain point.
Come along them was the reply. The re-
porter 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. This room wns
carefully boarded. The entrance to It was
by n door about six inches thick Through
this door, at short intervals. several men
darted suddenly. Their temperance was
as sudden as their exit. Before they disap-
peared they perspired, as the temperature Of
the engine-room, from which the corpulent
door led, was 90 degrees. On their return
they wero shivering.
mo, they haven't got ague,n replied the
longshoreman, in answer to a question he
saw concealed In the reporters eye. Arve
been there myself, and before I was In five
minutes / wondered why I'd forgotten to
bring an overcoat along
As a man with a lantern was about 10 open
the mysterious door again the reporter fell
into line, and IN a moment Itood In darkness
made visible by the feeble fHamo Of the Ian
tern n air was not cold; It was freezing.
A whining noise was heard. THAT Is the
cold air coming in" said the guide.
Tho reporter mounted a chair and
held his hand against the mouth OF a
six inch sheotiron pipe. sits just 4 degrees
below zero where your hand is now" said the
man with the lantern Tho reporter did not
consider it necessary 10 ask FOR an affidavit
to this effect rs in less than two minutes his
fingers felt as II they were frozen, and he
longed for the balmy broezes OF spring or
even the scorching heat OF summer.
allow Is Il a~ccomplishodfT no asked a knot
OF men who gathered bout him on seeing a
gilt-edged notebook appear.
The man with the lantern stepped forward
and said: at is a process by which the air
can be cooled to any degree you want down
to S. degrees below zero, or by which ice can
be made without the aid Of chemicals y
What do you use to accomplish thisf'
The atmosphere
The nventor said that he had spent seven
years and $50, 900 In perfecting his plan, and
had at last succeeded. The room had been
built for the experiment. The machinery
used was Nh eight horsepower engine. Con
nected with the engine is a series OF three-lnch
iron pipes. The atmosphere Is sucked into one
of these pipes, and carried through some
hundreds Of feet. Thence 1t passes through
a coll Of copper pipe which Is immersed in
water into a water trap, where the condensa-
ton is drawn OIL. Then It Is carried, cool
and dry, into an expounder from which It Is
forced into the required place at Its normal
temperaturs, 10 degrees, but dry. No chem
icals aro used In the process, according TO tho
inventor. and several ice-freezing machine
makers who were present seemed satisfied
that such was tho case.
at means GOODNESS whenever you want 1t
and are willing to pay FOR It," said the In
ventor. "A machine for cooling a hotel,
freezing It's meats, preparing its wnter bot
ties, and making winter or fall out Of sum-
mer II desired can be put up for 1900. 1t
is only a question Of time whom steamers,
hotels, theatres, concert halls, ETC., will be
cooled in this way. II viii make ice that
cGn be sold with n profit at a dollar a ton. 1t
will save brewers hundreds Of dollars, and
viii never run short Of fuel 50 long as the
world lasts. Il feeds IN the atmosphere and
gets Its meals for nothing"
Tho machine took an hour and fifteen
minutes to reduce the temperature Of a room
from rs degrees to 20 degrees, and two hours
TO reduce II to 10 degrees.