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 701
or 8 ft.below the surface, they will be perceptibly cooled in summer. It has been proposed to place a sys-tem of pipes containing ammonia vapor in a chimney leading into the dwelling to be cooled. Refrig-eration is then conducted by a process similar to that employed in the ammonia ice-machine.… … the air being cooled by contact with the water. Descriptions and illustrations of several devices forcooling air will be found in the Scientific American, xxxi., 23. In the slaughter-houses of New York, fresh-killed meat intended for export is cooled by a blastfrom a blower which passes through a…
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