. Marine Engineer . ls of the A class, whichtrade between Southampton and the River Plate. These vessels have been fully described in ourprevious issues, and are among the most luxuriouspassenger vessels afloat. Messrs. J. & E. Hall introduced the first C02machinery into this country in the year 1889. Themachine was made to the designs and under thepatents of Mr. Franz Windhausen, of Berlin. Sincethen considerable improvements have been made, andthe system is now firmly established, as is evidencedby the number of machines which this firm now turnout annually, also by the fact that several oth
. Marine Engineer . ls of the A class, whichtrade between Southampton and the River Plate. These vessels have been fully described in ourprevious issues, and are among the most luxuriouspassenger vessels afloat. Messrs. J. & E. Hall introduced the first C02machinery into this country in the year 1889. Themachine was made to the designs and under thepatents of Mr. Franz Windhausen, of Berlin. Sincethen considerable improvements have been made, andthe system is now firmly established, as is evidencedby the number of machines which this firm now turnout annually, also by the fact that several other firmshave taken up the manufacture, and the system is nowbecoming quite common, especially aboardship, whereits peculiar advantages render it eminently satis-factory. The essential parts of the machine are :— 1. An Evaporator, which contains lengths of pipe,inside which the CO„ evaporates, absorbing heat fromthe material to be cooled, which surrounds the pipes,and which, in the present instance, is
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