hamp-son's

Updated: May 6, 2025

So well is this principle carried out in Dr. Hamp-son's apparatus for liquefying air that compressed air passing into the coil at ordinary temperature without other means of refrigeration begins to liquefy in about six minutes a result that seems almost miraculous when it is understood that the essential mechanism by which this is brought about is contained in a cylinder only eighteen inches long and seven inches in diameter.

Edward Huntington Williams - A History of Science, Volume 5 : Aspects Of Recent Science