Essays, political, economical, and philosophical ... Vol. III / by Benjamin Count of Rumford.

  • Rumford Benjamin Graf von, 1753-1814.
Date:
1802
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Credit: Essays, political, economical, and philosophical ... Vol. III / by Benjamin Count of Rumford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    OF THE FIFTEENTH ESSAY. Many unfuccefsful attempts have been made, at dif- ferent times, to heat liquids by means of fleam— Reafon why thefe attempts failed—When fleam is ■ufed for heating a liquid, it mujl be introduced into it far below its furface, otherwife, as heat does not defend in fluids, the liquid cannot be uniformly heated —Detailed account of an apparatus, by means of which liquid may be heated, and 'made to boil, by ■■ fleam coming from a boiler at a diflance, and intro- duced into them—This plan has been adopted with the mofl completefuccefs—Defcriplion of the dying- house of Meflrs. Gott and Co. at Leeds, in which ] all the Coppers are heated by fleam—Defcription of the culinary steam apparatus/;; the kitchen A at the houfe of the Royal Infliiution—Propofals for employing hot, or fir ong fleam, in allum works, and in distilleries—Of the ufe that may be made of fleam in drying-houses - page 475 1
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