The Arkansas Advocate

Improved method of Heating Houses.-

We find in the English Gardener's Magazine, the annexed description of an improved method of heating hot-houses. The inventor is Mr. A. M. Perkins, a son of Mr. Jacob Perkins, the celebrated "steam compeller," who has won so much of the credit of American invention and science in London. The improvement is a plan for heating hot houses by the circulation of hot water in hermetically sealed tubes, of small diameter. However favorable this plan may be for heating hot houses, the advantages for that class of structures are as nothing compared with those which it offers for heating dwelling houses and all kinds of manufactories. Water may be circulated, under ordinary circumstances of attention to the fire at from 300 deg. to 600. It is found that 400 degrees will roast meat. Mr. Perkins is constructing for himself an oven for roasting by water. This will lead to beneficial changes in domestic arrangements. Water at 500 deg. or at least, water at 330 deg. for the purpose of cookery, and for heating reserve cisterns of cold water, or masses of metal or masonry, for various domestic purposes, including warming rooms, heating baths, laundries, &c. may at no distant time be circulated by companies, in the same manner as gas; and in London, instead of one fire for every room, as at present, there may be only one in a parish, or in every square of an acre in area.