Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration
KINDS OF FUEL-HEATING SYSTEMS-CHIMNEYS AND FLUES-FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AND FIRE ESCAPES-FIREPROOFING AND WATERPROOFING - ARTIFICIAL…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Coal
Gas is, perhaps, the ideal fuel. It is clean, convenient, and when the price is not unduly advanced by monopolistic control, it is cheaper…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Sizes
Sizes of Coal. -The large sizes of coal are the most wasteful, as the volatile gases are rarely all driven off and the heart of the large…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Coke
Coke as Fuel.-Coke is produced in large quantities as a by-product of illuminating gas, and in the vicinity of gas plants in cities it is…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Furnaces
Furnaces. - Furnaces vary greatly in the amount of coal that they con- G "Most Notable is the Underfeed System." sume to produce a given…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Hot-water
The saving in the use of these devices would far exceed the difference in the first cost, even if they were much "Hot-water Radiation."…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Prevent
To Prevent Dust.-Dust may find its way either from above or from below into the stream of warm air that rises from the register. To prevent…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Registers
Registers set in the wall naturally receive less dust from sweeping than floor registers do. They also give the warm air a somewhat better…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Franklin
The Franklin Stove. - The celebrated device invented in 1782 by Benjamin Franklin, and called by him the "Pennsylvania fireplace," is still…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Chimneys-To
The first chimney in Rome was built in 1368. Chimneys did not come into general use in Europe until the seventeenth century. Formerly-and…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Smoke
Chimneys - To Prevent Smoke. - Build a long, narrow flue 4 or 5 inches deep and 15 to 18 inches wide, thus having an opening of 60 to 90…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Hence
Usually the more crooked the flue the better the draught. A straight funnel does not usually draw well. To Cure a Smoky Chimney.-First note…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Fires
To Kindle Fires without Smoke.- To start a draught without smoke, on kindling a fire in an open grate when the air in the chimney is cold…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Chimneys
To Clean Chimneys. - Prepare a bed of hot coals in the stove, throw open the draughts and dampers, and throw on the coals some pieces of…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Fire
FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AND FIRE ESCAPES To Extinguish Fires. The objects to be attained in putting out fire are principally two: to cut off its…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Graham
This is the celebrated patent of William A. Graham of Lexington, Va., that was contested during nearly fifty years in the United States…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Fasten
Plain rubber tubing or flexible gas pipe is suitable for this purpose. The longer, the better. Fasten to the removable screw top by means…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Dissolve
Note the total weight and subtract the weight of the tank. Divide this amount expressed in pounds by 13, and the result will be the number…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Suitable
That is the attitude of many persons in regard to fire escapes. Suitable provision for escape from attics, chambers, and other upper rooms…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Fireproof
To Fireproof Cloth. - Mix equal quantities of alum, borax, and vitriol, or copperas; dissolve with boiling water or a thin size made by…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Apply
Or mix 4 ounces of isinglass, 4 ounces of alum, and 2 ounces of yellow soap, and dissolve in hot water to form an emulsion about the…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Welsbach
Cost of Lighting Systems. An average period for the burning of artificial light per twenty-four hours is perhaps from 6 to 10 P.M., or…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Thousand
To Read the Gas Meter. -The figures on the index at the right hand denote even hundreds. When the hand completes the entire circle it…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Burners
Gas Burners. -Gas burners are of three kinds: the common bat-wing burner with a slit, the fish-tail with two oblique holes facing each…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Acetylene
Acetylene Gas. - The use of acetylene gas for lighting purposes marks an era in artificial illumination. Acetylene is produced by the…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Petroleum
KEROSENE OIL Kerosene Lamps. -The use of kero sene in rural districts and small villages is practically universal. For- HEATING, LIGHTING…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Don't
Trim by rubbing the char off the wick; this leaves it even. Don't cut it; you can't cut it even.
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Lamps
To Prevent Explosions of Lamps. - One common cause of explosions is the upsetting of a lamp: hence select a lamp which has a broad, solid…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Adjust
Cautions to Observe. - Buy the best lamps and the best oil. Trim the wicks and fill the lamps daily. Adjust the wick neither too high nor…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Kerosene
Kerosene for Lighting Fires. - Kerosene should not be used for lighting fires, but it is so convenient and efficient that persons will…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Harvest
To Harvest Commercial Ice.-Ice has been an important article of commerce since the time of Nero, and in cold countries family ice houses…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: House
To Make an Ice House. - The size 01 an ice house must, of course, be determined by the number of persons that are to make use of it. The…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Build
To Build Ice Houses, make a frame of two or three joists, supported on posts raised a foot or more from the ground, and have a shed roof…
Heating, Lighting, and Refrigeration: Place
Ice Bags. To preserve small quantities of ice, make two bags of heavy woolen goods, one of which should be 2 or 3 inches wider on all sides…