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An historical account of a new method for extracting the foul air out of ships, etc. with the description and draught of the machines, by which it is performed: in two letters to a friend / by Samuel Sutton.

  • Sutton, Samuel.
Date:
1749
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical account of a new method for extracting the foul air out of ships, etc. with the description and draught of the machines, by which it is performed: in two letters to a friend / by Samuel Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    His ventilators cannot extrad the air from the well at the bottom of the fhip; but mine do this, and introduce pure and wholefome air, in the place of impure and un- wholefome. His ventilators, he tells us, will keep a prifon fweet; but my pipes will fweeten even a bog-houfe, and may be conveyed miles under ground into the deep- eft mines and fubterraneous cavi¬ ties, with the fame fuccefs. His ventilators require much more air than my pipes, which will admit of more or lefs, as fhall be thought expedient. And, as my fcheme, in all thefe refpeds, furpalles his ; fo his is dead and buried, without any hope of a refurredion, whilft mine rifes in it’s reputation daily ; and the report of captain Comyns, commander of the Fame privateer, which I fitted up fome months a- go, and which is returned to Lif- 4 bon