 | 1844 - 564 páginas
...are immense wooden buildings, capable of holding 10,000 to 20,000 tons each ; some of them, indeed, cover half an acre of ground. They are built with...making a solid wall, impervious to heat and air, and of 10 feet in thickness. The machines employed for cutting the ice are very beautiful, and the work is... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1844 - 504 páginas
...are immense wooden buildings, capable of holding 10,000 to 20,000 tons each ; some of them, indeed, cover half an acre of ground. They are built with...making a solid wall, impervious to heat and air, and of 10 feet in thickness. The machines employed for cutting the ice are very beautiful, and the work is... | |
 | 1844 - 508 páginas
...are immense wooden buildings, capable of holding 10,000 to 20,000 tons each ; some of them, indeed, cover half an acre of ground. They are built with...non-conductor — making a solid wall, impervious to heat and ;iir, and of 10 feet in thickness. The machines employed for cutting the ice are very beautiful, and... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1845 - 328 páginas
...are immense wooden buildings, capable of holding 10,000 to 20,000 tons each ; some of them, indeed, cover half an acre of ground. They are built with...making a solid wall, impervious to heat and air, and of 10 feet in thickness. The machines employed for cutting the ice are very beautiful, and the work is... | |
 | 1846 - 460 páginas
...are immense wooden buildings, capable of holding 10,000 to 20,000 tons each ; some of them, indeed, cover half an acre of ground. They are built with...making a solid wall, impervious to heat and air, and of 1 0 feet in thickness. The machines employed for cutting the ice are very beautiful, and the work is... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1864 - 436 páginas
...summer. An ordinary wooden frame building is lined inside with a wall all round, at from two to three feet from the outer one, and the space between is filled with waste tan bark rammed close, to keep out the heat when it 398 Spring Ice. comes. In this wintry shelter... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1874 - 556 páginas
...summer. An ordinary wooden frame building is lined inside with a wall all round, at from two to three feet from the outer one, and the space between is filled with waste tan bark rammed close, to keep out the heat when h conies. In this wintry shelter the cubes of... | |
 | 1853 - 432 páginas
...buildings, capable of holding 10,000 to 20,000 tons each ; some of them, indeed, cover half an ncre of ground. They are built with double walls, — that...beautiful, and the work is done by men and horses, in the following manner : — The ice that is intended to be cut is kept clear of snow, as soon as... | |
 | 1846 - 436 páginas
...storing 20,000 tons of ice. The Ice-House is built of wood, with double walls, two feet apart all round ; and the space between is filled with sawdust, a non-conductor, making a thick and solid wall, impervious to heat and air ; so that the ice is entirely unaffected by any condition... | |
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... sent from Boston to southern parts, the East and West Indies, &c. ; and as sawdust is solely used in packing, a large trade is also carried on in that article. The icehouses, near the lakes and ponds, are immense wooden buildings, capable of holding... 