Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-07
The Latest Way to Keep Cool.

udy TeHllHuS US VI WHtt otHCi oohiiiASAS
have been and of what future summers
are likely to be. On such rare days
there is no little cooling satisfaction in
the contemplation of recent inven-
ton by Willis L. Moore, the chief OF
the United States weather bureau. MI.
Moore has not devoted all his time to
forecasts, it seems, for he has invented
an apparatus by which air in room
may be cooled on a hot day as cheaply
and easily as it may be heated ON
cold day. This sounds improbable, but
a claim from such a source is entitled
to respectful consideration and it may
be that Mr.. Moore is to confer an in
estimable boon upon humanity. The
New York Herald has been investigat-
ing the invention and has faith in it.
and Everybody's Magazine opens it's
pages to an interesting account of it.
Mr.. Moore has one of his machines
weather bureau building and it is in
constant operation, reducing the tenn
perature of that room to almost any
point wanted. The machine is de-
scribed by the New York Herald as
looking like tall stove of galvanized
iron, cylindrical in shape, and with a
stove pipe going out through the wall
at the top. AT the bottom there is an
other short pipe, with it's mouth close
to the floor, and at this opening there
is little wheel which spins around
at a rapid rate" To the Herald cores
pendent Mr. Moore said:
THAT blast of air being thrown out
into the room is at SO degrees above
zero and it is coming at the rate of
1875 cubic feet minute. AS it energies
il spreads over the floor and slowly
rises, thus creating a gentle circulation
without any draft. You will notice
that one of the windows is open at the
top. Through that opening the denser
cool air steadily forces the warmer air
overhead. so there is a continual
change. I call it a gravity machine,
The pipe at the top brings the warm
air in from outside, which is dried,
washed and partly cooled in the upper
part of the apparatus. Descending in
TIC the lower part it is there thoroughly
cooled, and then passes into the room.
But the whole operation is dependent
upon the difference in specific gravity
between warm air and cool air. This
regulates the machine in such man.
ner that the apparatus works faster
when the weather is hot and more
slowly when the weather is cold. If
the thermometer were 100 today the
little wheel at the bottom, which meas
| ures the outflow of cool air, would be
going at buzzsaw gait. On the other
hand il the thermometer outside fell 10
65, the machine would stop working
entirely. 1t does this of it's own ac-
cord, actuated merely by the difference
between indoor and outdoor tempera-
ture''
In Everybody's Magazine it is stated
that Mr.. Moore is simply waiting for
the completion of certain foreign
patents before putting his machine on
the market. When patents have been
secured throughout Europe, as they
already have been secured in this
country, the apparatus will be in
troduced to customers and the secret
of it's construction will be made plain.
Mr. Moore admits that he uses certain
is not among them, and that his COM
pound is an entirely new discovery.
| The cost of the chemicals with which
| the machine is charged once a day is
not. says Mr.. Moore, ito exceed the
cost of heating the same place by furn-
ace or stove in extremely cold weather."
Within a short time, he adds, "the
. gravity machine will be in possession
of the public 1t will be made in sizes
| suitable for cooling rooms at home:
fever patients tossing on the couches
in the hospitals will be cooled by them;
cold storage pantries will be built in
every house and equipped with gravity
| coolers: hotels, in spite of their being
| located on the sea shore, can furnish
| GOODNESS to their guests. Cool railway
trains and cool theaters; cool factories
and cool churches-they all come in the
list"
1t all sounds too good to be true, and
| yet we are assured that it is true: that
anybody who is curiously inclined can
go to the weather bureau and see the
machine in operation every day. Not
| the least remarkable circumstance of
the discovery is the statement by Mr..
Moore that he did no experimenting.
| that he simply evolved his theories
| and built the machine which worked
perfectly from the start. Most dis
coveries of inventions of large import