478 On the Construction of Kitchen 



in the Kitchen of Heriofs Hospital at Edinburgh. 

 A short Account of a BOILER, on a new Construction, 

 lately put up at the House of the Royal Institution, 

 for the purpose of GENERATING STEAM for warming 

 the Great Lecture-Room. This Boiler would prob- 

 ably be found very useful for STEAM-ENGINES. 

 An Account of a Contrivance for preventing metallic 

 STEAM-TUBES from being injured by the alternate 

 Expansion and Contraction of the Metal by Heat 

 and Cold. An Account of a simple Contrivance 

 which serves as a Substitute for SAFETY-VALVES. 



I CAN NOT finish this Essay without apologizing 

 for the great length of it. I had no idea when I 

 began it that it would' ever have grown to such a volu- 

 minous size ; but I am not-conscious of having inserted 

 any thing that could well have been omitted. 



I was very desirous of laying before the public com- 

 plete plans and descriptions of the various culinary 

 inventions that have lately been put up in the great 

 kitchen of the house of the Royal Institution in Al- 

 bemarle Street, and also of those erected in Heriot's 

 Hospital at Edinburgh, in the autumn of the year 

 1800; but my stay in this country will be too short 

 for me to undertake so considerable a work at this 

 time. I am happy, however, that these new contriv- 

 ances, some of which have already been proved to be 

 very useful, are situated in places of public resort where 

 persons desirous of examining them may at all times 

 obtain free admission. 



There are also several other new and useful contriv- 

 ances at the house of the Royal Institution, which I 

 should have had great pleasure in laying before the 



