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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 387 — ARTIFICIAL ICE. COOLING LIQUORS.

William Johnston translation

[In India, one mode of cooling wines, is to suspend the bottle in a thick flannel bag, or folds of blotting-paper, kept constantly wetted, and placed in the sun’s rays, or a current of air, or both; by which means the evaporation, and therewith intense coldness, is produced.]

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