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Show SCIENCE AND PROGRESS Topics of Interest to Progressive Men find Women Movements in Soientifio Circles. A VEEY SIMPLE APPARATUS To Procure Good Water in Localities Where the Natural Water is Alkaline or Salt. . f The simple water still shown In the ao-1 ao-1 compaoying cut was devised by Dr. E. ' Cutter, and Illustrated and described originally orig-inally hi Popular Sciouce Newsi (A) Does away with the worm. (B) With the condensing water. (D) A reservoir reser-voir of tinned iron, 18x inches, with tight top, which fits into a kettle. At the hot torn is soldered a flange of tin flaring upward. up-ward. At B is a tube to lead off the water that condenses inside and runs down the ides. The drops of distilled water are aerated during their fall through the air to receptacle, and becomes palatable. The cut here given shows a section of the apparatus. A B B Is a tin cylinder 9 inches In diameter and 18 inches Ugh, covered cov-ered with a conical tight cap. D is a camp kettle any common pot or kettle will answer. U is a handle. FF Is a flange to fit tbe kettle or pot, its seen hi any cover to a dinner pot. OC is another flange like FF, turned upside down so that water wa-ter condensed on the Inside A B B and running down may collect and ran iuto a receptacle, re-ceptacle, H. The use is clear. Put water bad as it-may it-may be in tbe r i ml BIMPI.K WATER STIM,. camp kettlo D. Set on stove, range nr fire, so that when A B B Is put on the kettle the tube B (i may come over the receptacle re-ceptacle H. Then have a gentle Are so that steam will not issue frora.U. Pure distilled water will boob drip from G. The new points of this apparatus are briefly summarised as follows: 1. It does away with a worm ,and cold water for condenser. It Is found that there Is a current of air from all sides cooling cool-ing the condenser, A B B, enough to give with this apparatus Ave pints In ton hours. 8. The distilled wator of the chemist Is fbraoklsh, due to the distillate being discharged dis-charged la comparatively closed vessels. In the present case the water In drops falls through the air, and this presents a large snrfaoe to the atmosphere, with the practical prac-tical result of an aerated water like t mt of a spring. 8. The material should be tinned iron-not iron-not rino, which distills Bine oxide or may be of enameled ware, glass, porcelain, crockery, May, pottery, eto. 4. Variations Take adlnnerpot, remove cover to It, and fit a tin cylindor to cover eighteen inches knag. At the other end put flanges and tube as above, and this will also do the work. The apparatus may be made ooUapslule like the collapsible drinking drink-ing an p. Liquids of a less boiling point than water can also be distilled with this device, for example alcohol. |