Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-01-02
down BELOW ZERO
a Process by Which the Air Can
Be Cooled
Efsbty-Five Degrees Below Zero.
Zee Made without Chemicals
"A Fortune in Artificial
Cold weather.
New York Tribune. I

New York Tribunel
"How would you ike TO freeze 70 death
to-day inquired a 'iongshcrenan in Hamil-
ton avenue, Brooklyn. of p.r>,irirc re-
porter The latter expressed :; willingness
to try the experiment up 10 certain point
~Come along then was the reply The re-
porter seen found himself the g:uun,l
floor Of Pinto's big grain warehouse. In an
apartment: which stretched from tie aveni g
TO the water front was another containing
$500 cubic feet of space. This room was
carefully boarded. The entrance - i, was
by door about SIX inches thick Through
this door, at short intervals several men
darted suddenly Their reappsarance was
as sudden as their exit. Before they disap-
peared they Ierspired, as the temperature Of
the engine room, from which the corpulent
door led, was 80 degrees On their return
they Were shivering
NO. they haven't got aGue.- replied the
| iongshorenan III answer to question he
saw concealed III TIE reporters eye I've
been Here myself. and before 1 was in five
minutes | wondered why Id forgotten to
bring an overcoa; al ne.
As a man with lantern was about 20 open
the mysterious door again the reporter fell
iato line. and in Ia, meHt stood in darkness
made visible by the feeble flame e the lam
tern. The air was not cold: il was freeing
| \ whining noise was heard That j. the
cold air coming in said the guide.
| The TeTo r,er mounted chair aui
| aeld his hand against the mouth of a
six inch sheetir1n pipe. rs just 4 degre,
| below zero where yOuT hand is row, said the
man with the lantern Tie reporter did not
consider II Necessary & ask for an affidavit
to this effect, a. in less than two minutes hi
Fingers l"lt as 4 they were frozen, and he
| longesi for tie balnIy breezes OF spring "r
even the searching Ieat Of summer.
How is it accomplished he asked knot
Of men who gathered about him seeing Il
gilt-edged notebook appear.
Tie ;han with Ike lantern stepped forward
and said 1t u Il process Icy which the air
can he cooled to any ,;e2ree you want down
Ia ~ degree, below zero. or by which zee can
D. made without the aid of chemicals
w Sat 20 You Use 10 accomplish this
"The atmosphere"
The inventor said that lie had spent seven
years and 80, eco in perfectins his plan. and
had at last succeeded The room had been
built for tie experiment The machinery
used was an eight horsepower engine. Con
nected with tic engine 5 a series Of three-incb
iron PIP. The atmosphere is sucked into ore
OF tn Sc pipes, and carried through some
hundreds Of feet. Thence it passes through
4 coil If copper pipe which is immersed in
water into water trap where the condens;a-
ton is drawn of Then IL is carried, cool
and dry, into an expoundcr from which il is
forced into the required place at its normal
temperature. - degrees, but dry. No chem
icals are used in the process, according to tn,
inventor. and several ice-ireezing machine
makers who were present seemed satisfied
that such was the case.
1t means coolnes' whenever you want il
ard are willing 70 pay for it, said the in
veator. ~ machine for cooling a hotel.
fire., Eng its meats, Preparing its water bet
ties, AMI ma king winter or fail out OF sum-
mer If desired can lie put up for 5000. IL
* only question of tine when steamers
hotels, theatres, coEcer: halls, ,tr, will be
cnolcl IA this way. 1t viii make ice that
can be old with profit at dollar a ton. It
will save brewers hundreds of dollars, and
will never run Shur. II fue! so ion. "a the
world lasts. II feeds on the atmosphere and
get, its meals for nothing
The machine took an hour and fifteen
minutes 10 reduce the temperature of a room
frOia IS degrees To- 10 degrees, and two hours
to ret.u. 1t to lG degrees