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Panopt. Jan 1799
RoofBoards at any
rate rough on the
upper side —
be these
1. Common Bricks
flat ways — or
2. Clinkers edge-ways —
3. Stone tiles plain
4 Stone Tiles with
a Rabbit.
At any rate
on the outside of
all
Pigment of Tar
& Sand — Quere
with Pitch or Rosin?
According to
the cheapness —
Quere do mixt
with Tallow
At all events
Loose Sand to be
changed every
week or
Per S.B. Flooring
with the pigment
sufficient (as proved
by Monastic) the
Boards being cut
into narrow slips.
ex:gr. each breadth
into three.
To prevent escapes
out of the upper windows
inclined planes,
wood or iron —
Lodge to hang
over the Sub-Lodge
for locking down,
and shooting &c.
Zone of light at
the very top to be
given to it from
the Annular Well.
or rather to go clear
up as from Poor House
contrasting the Chapel
Galleries accordingly.
Can they be consistently
with draught
be made so wide
asunder in the
first instance
as to admitt of
Supartition or
tripartition afterwards? —
Per S.B.
Not without Crosses
If so, would there
be any saving
from them in
point of expence?
Would not as
much materials
be necessary to
be added for
measure of
strength to the
parts preserved
as are omitted saved
by the omission
of the parts omitted?
Could not the same
height of ceiling
(the foot) be given
to the Lodge on
the Prison Plan
as on the Poor
House plan?
taking the staircases
out of the Officers
Division, & not
out of the Annular
Area.
Four Stoves on
the German or Russian
plan having
their Fireplaces
in the Upper Store
Sub-lodge Store-room
and their upper
surfaces level with
& forming a part
of the floor of the
Lodge. The Chimneys
Cast Iron
or Copper, with
an including cylinder
&
continuing through
the Chapel, to give
heat to the Chapel
each having at
the lower part
a few feet above
the floor of the
Lodge, an including
cylinder
into which water
may be put occasionally
if the
iron is found to
be heated above
the degree of boiling
water, to reduce it to that
heat.
Better still
the abovementioned
Chimneys to be
in pairs (like
Holland's pillars)
ex:gr: one of
each side of a
window — and
they may serve
as supports
Quere how to join
on the enclosing
cylinders?
Privies on the
roof? radiating
like the Divisions.
The Closets to go
in turns —
Horse-dung for
the substratums.
Supports to the
dome, brackets
switching round
horizontally
besides the chains
or ropes.
The Dome to
hoist up occasionally
to the top
of the Chapel
ceiling. This
will give ventilation
in hot weather.
Identifier: | JB/157/062/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 157.
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157 |
panopticon |
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062 |
panopt. |
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002 |
annular area / divisions / lodge / warming / privees / inventions |
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rudiments sheet (brouillon) |
2 |
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recto |
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jeremy bentham |
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53432 |
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