Morris tribune., 1885-02-11
Perpetual Fall or Winter Weather from
ised-Hot Air Turned Into Colo.

"How would you like to freeze
TO death to-day?" inquired a long
shoreman in Hamilton avenue, Brook
Ign, yesterday, OF persplring 111,
6une reporter The latter eNpreSseu
a willingness to try the experiment up
to a certain point. Come along tnen'
was the reply. The reporter soon found
himself on the ground floor OF rlnto s
bio Grain warehouse. In an apartment
which stretched from the avenue to the
water front was another containing
9. 500 cubic feet of space. The room
was carefully boarded The entrance
TO it was bv a door about six inches
thick. Through this door, at short IN
tervals, several men darted suddenly.
Their temperance was rs sudden as
their exit. Before they disappeared
they perspired, as the temperature OF
the engine-room, from which the cor
pulent door led, was 900. On their
return they were shivering.
mo, they haven't got ague, replied
the 'longshoreman in answer to ques-
ton he saw concealed in the reporter
eye. "I've been there myself, and be,
fore was in five minutes | wondered
why I'd forgotten to bring an oVercoat
along"
AS 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 all
was not cold; it was freezing. A whin.
ing noise was heard. That is the cold
air coming in said the guide. Inc
| reporter mounted chair and held MS
hand against the mouth OF siX-lnch
sheet-iron pipe. Its just 40 belo"
zero where your hand is noW,' said the
man with the lantern. The reporter
did not consider it necessary to ask fol
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 a knot of men who gathered about
him on seeing a gilt-edged NOTEBOOK
appear. o.
The man with the lantern stepped
forward and said: 1T is q process by
| which the air can be cooled to any de
gree you want down to 50 2 below zero
or by which ice can be made wlthou
the aid of chemicals. 81
"What do you use to accomplish
this?"
THE atmosphere.
| The inventor said that he had spen
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 al
eight-horse power engine. Connected
with the engine is a series OF three-lncf
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 pip
which is immersed in water, into ;
water-trap, where the condensation i
drawn off. Then it is carried, cool ant
dry, into an expounder, from which i
is forced into the required place at it
normal temperature, 150, but dry
No chemicals are used in the process
according to the inventor, and severa
ice-freezing machine makers who wer
present seemed satisfied that such wa
the case.
cit means GOODNESS whenever yo1
want it and are willing to pay for it,
said the inventor. "A machine TO
cooling hotel, freezing its meats, pre-
pairing its water-bottles; and maxim!
winter or fall out of summer if desire'
can be put up for $4,000. 1t is only
question of time when steamers, hotels
theatres, concert-halls, ETC., will b
cooled in this way. 1t will make ic
that can be sold with a profit at a dol
lar a ton. 1t will save brewers hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, and vii
never run short of fuel as long as tn
world lasts. 1t feeds on the atmospher
and gets its meals for nothing"
The machine took an hour and tifteel
minutes to reduce the temperature OF
room from $50 to A ., and two hour
to reduce it to 100.