Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 144
best suited for the artificial refrigeration of air apart from ice-making, inasmuchas the requisite amount of cold can be regulated with the greatest nicety by means of a valve underthe control of the attendant. Air Machines.—The principal types are as follows : In the Windhausen, Fig. 2365, A is… … passes to the condenser D, from which in the direction of the arrow it passes to a similar receptacleE, thence down as indicated by dotted lines to another cooler F. Within these chambers arearranged series of pipes through which the blast passes, and which are surrounded by a current ofcold water…
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