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Experimental Frigidarium
4 Decr 1799.
Instruments
1
Thermometers
Registers..2
2
do Common
with red Spirit
3
Pestle & Mortar
for pounding the
Ice.
4
Pump for raising
the Water for the
Balneum
5
Tongs, Wooden
Spring Tongs of
Ash.
—
Strawberries. Mulberries
& Raspberries
& Cherries.
To preserve them
from pressure,
piles of thin metallic
plates -
Tin or lead -
each supported
by three pins-
The pins to stand
above the plate
so that the pins
of the plate below
support the plate
above.
The height of
each pin the maximum
height of the fruit: not to
free room, they may
be lowered by binding.
Miscellanea
Building
The Vestibule, instead
of being at
right angles toin line with the
Refrigeratory, to be
at right angles
to it.
{Line Drawing}
Entrance fronting
the Wall, because
as the business would
be done in the morning,
by that mean
the door would not
have to open to the
morning sun.
Vessels
10
Glass might serve
even in the Water
Baleum, for the
upper tier, where
the pressure of the
water is very slight
Experimentation
11
No use in taking
out any article
earlier than the
time chosen, which
it is known by
experience to be
capable of being
kept.
Building Purificaf.
12
To absorb the d
moisture introduced
by the breath
employ dry alkali
to a pan board to deliquiate.
13.
To absorb the carbonic
air from
the breadth employ
lime water and
lime.
Miscellanea
In Glasses
13
Vessels
For the Glasses in
the Water Balneum
a hollow or bladder
oiled tied in two
places, with waxed
thread for it to bite
upon: viz: the neck
of the cover, made
a little thicker than
at present, and
roughened with emery
for the thread to bite
upon, and in the
body which for
that purpose should
have a groove lip or
channel and embossed
upon.
The [sketch}
] 14 {Sketch}
The knob migh
of the cover might
go through, in
such a manner as to
form an interval neck to serve to hang the
subject upon
Building
15
The case, for
draining of the melted
ice to terminate
in a narrow
wooden pipe with
two valves shutting
air tight each by
a spring, and opening
only by the
pressure of the incumbent
water.
16
Each Glass or
Barrel to be connected
by a frame
to a cast iron
stand, to keep it
down under water.
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Closing Links
consult Grins
Chemistry
{Sketched drawing}
{Various Line drawings}
Identifier: | JB/106/050/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
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frigidarium |
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050 |
frigidarium experimental |
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003 |
preservanda / closings or stopples / vessels / nidus's / states of the subject matter / preparatory cooling / miscellanea / instruments / building |
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plan |
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jeremy bentham; fr1 |
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