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

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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$meters, placed in the separate apartments, they will be fully convinced that the following effects are produced: 1st. That there is a constant evaporation of the air which has been decomposed, whatever may have been the cause of its decomposition. 2nd. That there is a constant supply of fresh air to replace that which is decomposed. 3rd. That it is impossible for any damp to exist in the rooms, because the fire is kept in the reservoir every time that it is required, and the heated air, which proceeds from thence, com¬ municating with all parts of the dwelling', and being never below the temperature off the ex¬ ternal atmosphere, it meets with nothing cold enough upon which it might depose the water it holds suspended; it cannot produce that effect which is called humidity. In using this means it is evident that all air which is injurious to health is conveyed off by the pump, and its place is supplied by the reservoir; the dwelling must of course be more healthy, and be inaccessible to damps. It now only remains to explain the manner in which is obtained an equality of temperature, and the suppression of those currents of air which are the common causes of many diseases and which are the inevitable effects of the system fol¬ lowed till now in the method of warming houses, and particularly in the use of stoves of the most \$