Ventilation | Whitman Archive

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Title: Ventilation
Date: 27 May 1858
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: per.00778
Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 27 May 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Ventilation." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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VENTILATION.—

The large Lecture Room of the Cooper Institute, in New York, has some novel advantages for ventilation. A powerful fan, driven by steam-power, revolves in the bottom of a large shaft, and propels the fresh air through an immense tunnel, from whence it is conveyed through an augur hole to every seat in the apartment, and escapes through apertures in the ceiling. This secures a pure cool air in the warmest weather, and by a slight modification of the machinery, may be made to furnish heated air to the whole building.