Andree's Cooking-stove 



also provided with a valve placed high up in the 

 side of the balloon, on the equator, which was 

 operated in the usual way with a line. His 

 cooking apparatus was ingenious, and was the 

 invention of a friend, a Swedish engineer. He 

 was unable to light a match in the car for fear 

 of an explosion, so an arrangement had to be 

 devised to overcome this difficulty. 



The method of using this apparatus was as 

 follows : the prepared food was mixed with a 

 certain known proportion of water and placed 

 in the pot, the spirit lamp was filled, and a wax 

 match placed in the finger -like hammer. This 

 hammer was made on the principle of that of a 

 flint-lock gun, the trigger of which was pulled by 

 the cord, which was conveyed in a pipe that was 

 affixed to the outside of apparatus, through the 

 handle, thence up the rubber tube to the man in 

 the balloon. The whole apparatus was lowered 

 after preparation below the car the length of the 

 webbing belt, which was some twenty-five feet 

 long, or sufficiently far away from the gas in the 

 balloon to make the risk of an explosion a 

 negligible quantity. Now, the different foods 

 supplied required a certain time, which was a 

 known quantity, for their cooking ; therefore 

 when all was ready and the match in position 

 the whole concern was lowered to the extreme 

 length of the webbing belt ; then the cord that 

 sprang from trigger was pulled, the hammer 



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