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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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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    guarding against obnoxious currents of air, (all of which are causes of numberless diseases), are the objects I have endeavoured to attain, and, I trust, I have completely suc¬ ceeded. Air, being the great agent of our existence, on its pu¬ rity depends, in a great degree, our health, and all the comforts of life. Every one knows that, wherever man breathes, the constant introduction of fresh air is mdis- pensible, and that the breathing* of tainted air produces langour, decay, and. finally, death. The experience of all ages bears evidence of its influence on health and longe¬ vity. Under these considerations I apprehend, Gentlemen, you will be of opinion, that an efficacious method of puri¬ fying it and regulating its admission, at pleasure, into your dwellings, is a most desirable object, and a most beneficial discovery. I consider this object as effectually obtained; and, I trust, should you honor me with a visit, that, by examining my apparatus, you will find in it sufficient ground to sanction it by your approbation. PURIFICATION OF THE AIR. The means I employ are simply these:—I have placed a Ventilator on the roof of my house, which I call an Air Pump, as it must continually draw up and let out from the interior the rarefied air, which by its own nature and light¬ ness, is apt to rise; by which, means a constant renewal of it is obtained. This Ventilator, by a single tube, leads to a box, with which all the bed-rooms in the 3d and 2d floors have a separate communication, by a pipe, of which one extremity passes through the ceding of each bed¬ room. In this manner, during night, the exhalations sent forth by the human body, proceed tow ards it and are car¬ ried off by that channel: fresh air is immediately drawn tip and admitted by the apertures of doors and windows