The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First ProfessorsJones, Bence
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The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors
Jones, Bence
Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829; Royal Institution of Great Britain; Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814; Young, Thomas, 1773-1829
Spacious and airy rooms will be prepared for the reception and
public exhibition of all such new and mechanical inventions and
improvements as shall be thought worthy of the public notice, and
more especially of all such contrivances as shall tend to increase
the conveniences and comforts of life, to promote domestic economy,
to improve taste, or to promote useful industry.
The most perfect models of the full size will be provided and
exhibited in different parts of this public repository of all such
new mechanical inventions and improvements as are applicable to
the common purposes of life. Under this head will be included:
Cottage Fire-places and Kitchen Utensils for Cottages.
A complete Kitchen for a Farm-house, with all the necessary
Utensils.
A complete Kitchen, with Kitchen Utensils, for the family of a
gentleman of fortune.
A complete Laundry for a gentleman’s family, or for a public
hospital, including Boilers, Washing-room, Ironing-room,
Drying-room, &c.
Several of the most approved German, Swedish, and Russian Stoves,
for heating rooms and passages.
In order that those who visit this establishment may be enabled to
acquire more just ideas of these various mechanical contrivances,
and of the circumstances on which their _peculiar merit_
principally depends, the machinery exhibited will, as far as it
shall be possible, _be shown in action_, or in _actual use_, and
with regard to many of the articles it is evident that this can be
done without any difficulty and with very little additional expense.
Open Chimney Fire-places on the most approved principles will be
fitted up as models in the different rooms, and fires will be
kept constantly burning in them during the cold season.
Ornamental as well as Economical Grates, for Open Chimney
Fire-places, will also be exhibited; as also,
Ornamental Stoves, in the form of elegant Chimney-pieces, for
halls, drawing-rooms, eating-rooms, &c.
It is likewise proposed to exhibit _working models_, on a reduced
scale, of that most curious and most useful machine the Steam
Engine.
Of Brewer’s Boilers, with improved Fire-places.
Of Distiller’s Coppers, with improved Fire-places and improved
Condensers.
Of large Boilers for the kitchens of hospitals, and of Ships’
Coppers, with improved Fire-places.
Further it is proposed to exhibit in the repository of the
Institution--
Models of Ventilators for supplying rooms and ships with fresh
air.
Models of Hot-houses, with such improvements as can be made in
their construction.
Models of Lime-kilns on various constructions.
Models of Boilers, Steam-boilers, &c., for preparing food for
cattle that are stall-fed.
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