432 Remarks on the hot Water System. 



fellow-creatures is my ambition ; to be one day accounted as 

 such, would be the reward of which I am most desirous." — 

 The Comte Chabannes was ultimately ruined by his manu- 

 factory in Drury Lane, and, as we are informed, returned to 

 France about seven years ago. 



Thus it appears that the system of heating by hot water 

 was invented at least half a century ago, and that it will add 

 one to the instances frequently occurring, of an invention having 

 been produced long before it was duly understood and appre- 

 ciated by those to whom it was best calculated to be useful : 

 that is, the horticulturists. The fact of the Comte Chabanne's 

 having applied it in houses in London, and in hot-houses in 

 the country, ten years ago, will also show that, notwithstand- 

 ing all the reading, research, and attention to what has been 

 done or is passing in the world, — notwithstanding all that 

 eagerness after improvement which is characteristic of the 

 present day, — a most ingenious and useful invention has been 

 displayed before us, explained, and yet totally overlooked ! 

 Farther, the mode of heating by hot water being clearly of 

 French origin, proves the superior science of the engineers in 

 France at a comparatively early period, and ought to keep 

 alive our attention to that quarter for new ideas. 



The application of this mode of heating to baths is of some 

 standing, but it is difficult to determine when it was first ap- 

 plied in this way. Two interesting papers on heating water 

 for baths have lately appeared ; the one by Mr. E. D. Thom- 

 son, in the Philosophical Magazine, and the other in Brande's 

 Qiiarterly Journal. Mr. Metheley, of Frith Street, Soho, the 

 inventor of a very great improvement in the construction of 

 chamber grates, has recently devised a mode for heating a bath 

 in any room of the house, by a pipe passing through a cistern 

 of hot water at the back of the kitchen range. A fire has been 

 applied in the basement story of a house to heat water con- 

 nected with all the reservoirs and water-pipes in thr.t house, 

 in order to keep up the reservoirs of water to the mean tem- 

 perature in the winter season, to prevent its freezing in the 

 pipes, and to give a command of tepid water in the dressing- 

 rooms, &c. These different applications may be consulted by 

 the engineer and the gardener witli advantage, as thoy show 

 how the construction of the apparatus for this mode of heat- 

 ing may be varied according to circumstances. It is not so 

 much by merely collecting the principles and practice of any 

 single art, as by bringing the maxims and methods of other 

 arts to bear upon that art which we wish to cultivate, that the 

 greatest progress is to be made. — Cond. 



