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FARMERS' R E G J S 1' E R . 



[No. 1 



York a few days hence, when the time for Gene- 

 ral resumption will be proiioeeil; but that it will be 

 at an early date is not expecteil. X. 



April 7. 



From Loudon's (Loufloii) Gardener's Magazine. 

 Joyce's new moije of heating. 



Mr. Joyce, a commercial crardener at Camber- 

 well, has recently made one of' the nios; extraor- 

 dinary inventions lor producing heat, which have 

 ever been given to the public. We question il' 

 anv thing so remarl<able has occurred, in a practi- 

 cal pomt of view, since the invention, of gunpow- 

 der. Whether Mr. Joyce's stove will be so eco- 

 nomical as to be adapted lor general use, is a ques- 

 tion that can only be saiislaciorily delermmed by 

 experience; but in the liiean time it promises to be 

 eo; and, while it may be employed to heat church- 

 es, and ail kinds of public and piivafe buildina's, 

 ships, and the inside of carriages, Mr. Joyce thinks 

 thai the poorest cottager will find more comfort 

 and economy in its use than in the common open 

 fire-place. The invention not being, at the time 

 we write, fully secured by patent, the details can- 

 not be here given; but the result is, that heat is 

 produced by an apparatus of very limited magni- 

 tude, and that it may be raised to any temperature 

 that can be required, short of red heat, by combus- 

 tion without the production of smoke. To most 

 of our readers this will seem impossible; but the 

 fact was placed beyond a doubt yesterday (Dec. 

 5), when one of" Mr. Joyce's stoves, in action, 

 was exhibited at a meeting of the Horticultural 

 Society, in Regent Street, and examined by a great 

 number of persons. The (brm of the stove in 

 which the heat is generated, is that of an upright 

 cylinder, from the conical apex of which a heated 

 current of air escapes, and which current can be 

 regulated at pleasure, or altogether stopped: but 

 the chief source of heat is the radiation from the 

 sides. Of course, the heat so generated may ei- 

 ther be allowed to escape directly into the sur- 

 rounding atmosphere, or be conveyed away in 

 air-tubes, or by means of hot-water pipes, to a dis- 

 tance, or to any other apartment. If this niven- 

 tioi:i answer the expectations which have been 

 formed of it, it will etlect a complete revolution in 

 the mode of heating dwelling-houses throughout 

 the world; because it is the only mode hitherto 

 discovered by which heat can be produced bj' com- 

 bustion, without any heat being lost. At present, 

 whether a room is heated by an open fire-place, a 

 close stove, steam pipes, or hot-water pipes, or by 

 the introduction of a current of heated air from a 

 cockle-stove, still a large proportion of heat neces- 

 sarily escapes along with the smoke produced by 

 the consumption of the fuel; but here not one par- 

 ticle of heat escapes, and the only care requisite in 

 regard to the air of a room will be, to have a quan- 

 tity of fresh air admitted proportionate to what is 

 deteriorated by the combustion of the material era- 

 ployed in this new mode of healing, and by the 

 persons breathing in the room. One advantage 

 attending this invention is, that it is perfectly free 

 from dust, and that the stove, when once charged 

 and lighted, requires no attention whatever for 

 from 20 to 30 liours, according to the charge. 

 The convenience of such a mode of applyinsr heat 

 to rooms, without fire-places, closets of every de- 

 scription, whether of books, curiosities, or plants, 

 &c., and, in short, to all enclosed places without 



chimneys, must be obvious. It is also adapted' 

 beyond all other inventions, for heating, with se- 

 curity from fire, ships, and lor warming the inside 

 of close carriages; and it might be taken underwa- 

 ter in a diving bell, or into the atmosphere in a 

 balloon. It is also admirably adapted lor the pur- 

 poses of French cookery. \Ve shall not, however, 

 enlarge farther on this invention, till we can ex- 

 plain to our readers what it is; and this Mr. Joyce 

 has kimlly promised to enable us to do at the very 

 earliest moment alter his patent js sealed. It is no 

 small honor to the profession of gardener, that an 

 invention of so nmch importance has been made 

 by one of their nunjber. — Conductor. 



From tlie same. 



Joyce's new stove and economical fuel. — Since 

 we noticed this stove in our former number, p. 57, 

 Mr. Joyce has taken out a patent, and has ibrmeci 

 a partneishif) with Mr. Harper, of Cornhill. The 

 stove has been exhibiting to the private friends of 

 Messrs. Harper and Joyce, and to some literary 

 and scientific men, three times a week; and it has 

 been noticed in the 'Mechanic's Magazine' and 

 the 'Literary Gazette,' lor January 13, the only- 

 public journals, as far as we have observed, that 

 have noticed it at all, except this Magazine. The 

 following are extracts h'om the notices referred to: 



Joyce's new stove ''is m the form of a tall urn, 

 having a pipe running entirely through the centre, 

 with a cap or valve at the top, to regulate the 

 draft. The urn is of" thin bronze, and about two 

 feet high, and eight inches in diameter. By the 

 combustion of the fuel inside, the metal continues 

 at a dull red heat, and so gives off the caloric to 

 the surrounding air. The fuel is stated to be a 

 vegetable substance; and one charge, in a stove 

 of the above descrilied dimension*, will burn lor 

 thirty hours, and will cost 6c^. No smoke or cfRu- 

 via are produced. — 3Iechanic^s Magazine, Janua- 

 ry 13, 1838. 



'■'■New mode (f heating rooms. — The puzzle which 

 has been shown at the Jerusalem Coffee House, 

 has set the wits of conjeciurers at work upon the 

 nature of the particular lliel, which, at so cheap a 

 cost as a iiirlhing an hour, is to warm a room. 

 Of these conjeclures we have heard two. The 

 first is, that the gardener who discoved the fuel, 

 which enabled him to keep up the fire whilst he 

 slept, must have used old tanner's bark, as it was 

 the only fuel accessible in a hot-house. The oth- 

 er IS, ihat charcoal is the base, and lime cm[)loyed 

 to absorb the carbonic acid gas. Gipsies are in 

 the habit of using the ashes of their fires, raked 

 together in a heap, and sprinkled with lime. 

 This will burn throughout ihe night, and no dete- 

 riorating gas IS evolved to distress the sleepers in 

 the gipsy lent." — Literary Gazette, January 13, 

 1838. 



Mr. Joyce's patent is dated December 1(5, 1837; 

 and the time for giving in the specification to the 

 patent ofTice, is limited to six months fi'om that 

 date. It will not be before our July number, 

 therefore, that we can make our readers acquaint- 

 ed with the secret of the kind of fuel and the 

 mode of burning; but, in the mean time, we may 

 state that the conjecture as to the fuel consisting 

 of charcoal and lime, which was made by Mr. 

 Sylvester, the engineer, in the Horticultural Soci- 

 ety's meeting-room, when the stove was first ex- 

 hibited there, is by f;ir the most plausible. 



