The Piston Process of Freezing. The Piston Freezing Machine and Ice Company.
“The machine was first publicly exhibited in the Western Annexe of the Exhibition Building, Kensington, 1862, and attracted considerable attention from the scientific as well as from the general public, and also received official recognition at the hands of the Jury of the Machinery Department; moreover the numerous orders that flowed in from all parts of the globe during the “Exhibition” year, especially from India, stamped it at once as an invention of the greatest utility”.
Interior: Occasional light spotting, some creasing, general internal wear.
Exterior: Publishers Green/Blue cloth (Staining, fading and wear).
8vo. London, John Smith [and] Co., [no date c. 1883].
Chapters include: The “filtering” Refrigerator, The “Self-Feeding” Cabinet Refrigerator or Ice Safe, Extracts from Testimonials.
Also included: Recipes for the Production of the Most Choice and Delicate Ices, Creams.
Recipes for such things as: Current Ice Cream, Ginger Ice Cream and Mille-Fruit Ice Cream.
Includes lovely period illustrations in the text of various contraptions offered by the ‘ASH‘ company, such as: Ash’s Kaffee-Kanne, Ash’s Patent ‘Piston’ Freezing Machine [and] Wine Cooler.
“ASH’S PATENT PENDING FREEZING MACHINES- A new and very useful machine has been recently introduced to the public by Mr Ash, a gentleman who for many years has been connected with the ice trade, has invented a small apparatus, by means of which ice can be produced in a very few minutes, and with the smallest possible trouble”.
A VERY RARE, late Victorian book.
Please note that this book is of its time.
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