 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Conduct of life - 1868 - 394 pages
...apparatus, and the most equable temperature secured. The principle I would apply is the well-known philosophical law of temperature, viz.; that warm...important item in the current expenses of every family." It would be well if the practice of building houses over cellars, which are usually reservoirs of foul... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - Formulas, recipes, etc - 1879 - 374 pages
...much exceeding Western pioneers in the construe- fifty dollars, tion of houses suited to their cirbe maintained at the daily expense of a little ice —...refrigerator in the attic reciprocating with each other." Suggestions on Wall-Paper and Interior Decoration. The ornamenting of apartments with hangings and... | |
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... close the lower opening and open the upper one. In the refrigerator in the garret I would place a quantity of ice daily, the cool air from which descending down the tubes, would enter the rooms and keep them at any requisite temperature. Thus, in... 