1862 The Bartender's Guide price $2,50 by Jerry Thomas

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DISTILLATION.

The portable furnace (l) is most excellent for boilers of from 5 to 10 gallons, and may be used as a heating or cook- ing stove for families, as well as for the purposes of distil- lation. Coal can be filled in without moving the boiler, it having a good di-aught of air, and being laid out with fire- bricks, with a fall-grate for extinguishing the coal after using. The above can be obtained, ready-made, ojf J. Murphy, at N"o. 256 Water street, complete for $5. The C07iciirhit, or boiler (2), belonging to the furnace, contains 10 gallons of liquid, and is formed of tinned cop- per — the smaller part of the bottom standing on the fire- bricks, while the upper bottom covers the top of the fur- nace. . This construction enables the first heat of the coal to give its whole strength on the under bottom, and rising up by the door, continues around the boiler, between the top and the brick-work, and in the stove-pipe. By. this process, time and coal are both saved.

Distillation

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Consists essentially in converting a liquid into vapor in a close vessel, by means of heat, and then conveying the vapor into another cool vessel, where it is condensed again into a liquid. To accomplish this, the liquids are placed in the boiler (2), and when heat is applied to the boiler, spirit begins to rise in vapor at 176*^ (degrees), and water is converted into vapor at 212° (degrees). These vapors pass from thti