Explanation of a new method for warming and purifying the air in private houses and public buildings : for totally destroying smoke, for purifying the air in stables, and every kind of buildings [sic] in which animals are lodged.

  • Chabannes, Jean-Frédéric de, marquis de Curton, 1762-1836.
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Explanation of a new method for warming and purifying the air in private houses and public buildings : for totally destroying smoke, for purifying the air in stables, and every kind of buildings [sic] in which animals are lodged. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    , ' * V times, issues in the contrary direction, whenever it is acted upon by another impulse contrary to the direction which the current ought to take. This happens frequently in the ordinary methods em¬ ployed, either by the effect produced by the fire and chimney ; by a change of exterior tempera¬ ture; by the rarefaction of the air in the apart¬ ment itself; in fine by the greater or lesser pres¬ sure of it, in the different states marked on the barometer. In a word, in every Ventilator hi¬ therto established, the effect of it is abandoned to all the inconveniencies above stated ; and, it may be added, purely to chance. In the method here used, the aspiration and the issue of the air upwards is forced, be the air hot or cold, heavy or light, it must obey the im- • s pulse. If the windows are shut close and there % be no issue to counteract the action of the pump, the air issuing from it must unavoidably be re¬ placed (at least a great part of it) by that which passes through the reservoir, and in the same proportion as it goes out by the action of the pump. This principle once established, (and no one sure will attempt to refute it,) a constant and uniform Ventilation may then be established, without ex¬ posing persons to the perfidious currents of the air of chimnies, or to the variations in the exte¬ rior temperature ; in fine, without exposing them to an hundred accidental causes of a disagreeable influence to which the common mode of Ventila¬ tion (if n deserves that name) is subject to.