Hello, friends. We continue to get completely forgotten materials from the bins of history about free energy installations that once existed.
Healthcare in the late 19th century was one of the most heavily used free energy industries. This was largely due to the fact that medical institutions were maintained at that time at the expense of state budgets. To save money, we used all the most advanced technologies for energy consumption and energy consumption at that time. Consider the example of hospitals in the Australian city of Adelaide. But first, a brief excursion into history.
After the colonization of the Australian continent in the 19th century, the authorities inevitably faced the problem of creating the infrastructure of the newly formed settlements. All colonies of the Australian continent at that time were concentrated in port cities on the east and south coast of Australia, including the port city of Adelaide. The problem of medical care for the inhabitants of the colony in Adelaide, as indeed everywhere else, was quite urgent. The history of the creation of hospitals in this city is located here. Some quotes from this site would be interesting to readers.
“Official documents show that the first hospital in Adelaide was made of wood, shipped from England in conjunction with the Immigration Barracks of the South Australian Commissioners and erected on the 'Immigration Square', which is commonly known as Buffalo Row ….
In August 1838, a collective of citizens asked the governor to consider providing the population with funds for treatment in the event of an accident or illness, without visiting the colonial hospital, which, in their opinion, is poorly designed and poorly ventilated and in all respects unsuitable for receiving patients.
At the time, bedding consisted of several dirty blankets made from large coats and sacks filled with wood shavings. Three iron beds (borrowed) adorned the hospital, which was not provided by a nurse, fuel, candles, water or any means to keep the patients' personal comfort and cleanliness."
Both the quality of service and the number of beds for patients, the existing hospital did not meet the requirements for it. The problem of constructing a new hospital building was more than urgent. After lengthy approvals for the location of the new hospital, it was built in the period 1855-1858. At the same time, as noted, the quality of construction work was low, and there were many complaints from patients.
“By 1886, the hospital was in the worst condition, every ward had construction defects. There was no proper ventilation system, except that the windows provided, leaving dampness in the corners. The floors were Oregon wood and in a pitiful condition, carved with bed wheels, the walls were moldy.
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To remedy this situation, about £ 4,000 was spent, the mattresses were taken to Torrens Island and cut into pieces, and the horsehair from them was disinfected in a chamber with hot air. Bluestone spray applied liberally all over did mold removal. The ventilation system was repaired and a good sanitary condition was provided, steam boilers were installed in the kitchen, hot water was supplied in the bathtubs and the hospital got a new life."
In this case, we are talking about the building of the Royal hospital. Photographs of the building of this hospital from those years have been preserved. Here they are, the first photo from 1870, the second from 1881.
Externally, the building remained practically unchanged. As always, there are a lot of chimneys on the building, but none of them emit smoke. And what kind of tower superstructures are located on the roof? Most likely, this is the very ventilation that the Internet source mentions and which did not cope with its work. A very strange description. From the outside, it looks as if the building was originally designed with engineering errors, due to which there was a poor sanitary condition of the premises. Could this have happened if the building was designed by the best engineering minds of the time? Let's compare with photographs accidentally preserved in the archives. Let's start with the surgical ward.
This is a preserved photo of the interior of the surgical ward from 1869. Apparently, the source also describes her unsanitary condition, which immediately gives in to doubt. The room looks quite clean and well-groomed, there are even flowers in pots. And how did the chamber look after the very renovation described earlier? A photo taken from the same angle, but already in 1895, was accidentally preserved (it is not possible to confirm or deny the dating). Here it is.
But there is almost no difference between the sanitary condition in the wards. At the same time, the differences in the technical details of the premises are immediately evident. To make them better visible, let's apply Photoshop and overlay photos on top of each other.
As you can see, there are a lot of inconsistencies. The main ones - the columns standing in the center of the hall were replaced with others, a previously absent beam was added in the center of the ceiling, and some kind of window was closed up in the central thick column from above. How could these architectural elements affect the sanitary condition of the ward? If you look closely, the thick column in the center of the room is nothing more than an ordinary fireplace. But there is practically no place for fuel combustion in it. We look at other surviving photographs of the same room.
No mistake, the columns in the room were really different, and in appearance they were even more durable. For what purpose were the tables rigidly attached to them, on which there are flowers? And why did it become necessary to lay a central beam along these columns, if the ceiling was quite strong? There are many questions that baffle the builders. How are the changes made related to ventilation and other sanitary features? After the renovation, no newly introduced sanitary facilities are visible. Nevertheless, the ward premises in this form have been functioning for a long time. Over the next years, its appearance changes again. The last photo of this room was taken in 1969, after which the hospital building was completely demolished. See this photo.
A small detail immediately confuses, namely the abundance of external electrical wiring. Why were there no wires at all on the walls outside, but at the same time there was an electric lamp on the wall near every bed? In addition, the tables near the columns, despite the years, clearly remained the same. Wooden furniture cannot be stored that much. What happened to this chamber at the end of the 19th century? Now let's try to look at all this from the standpoint of common sense.
As mentioned earlier, the central thick column in the chamber is nothing but a fireplace. But this fireplace has never used fuel in its work. His work bay was never designed for this. This fireplace was of a symmetrical design, it worked in two opposite directions along the main axis of the building. His reflector was heated by the electric current coming to him from the metal frame of the building. A photo of this fireplace has survived at the time of the destruction of the building in 1969. The reflector itself in the photo has already been dismantled.
As you can see, fuel has never really been burned here. The reflector was heated by the passage of an electric current through a bent conductor, which is clearly visible in the photo. The heated air rose up and was removed through the pipe, providing ventilation of the room. Partially the air was taken in from above and removed through the same window, in the place of which a beam was later laid. And these are not all the secrets of that room.
The lighting of the chamber in its original form was central (1), individual (2) and duty (3).
Central lighting was provided by the special design of the tops of the columns, which were removed. Duty and individual lighting was provided by electric lamps. Electricity for these purposes was also taken from the metal frame of the building. Why did you need to destroy it? The secret is generally simple, to answer this question you need to look at the photos from the neighboring chambers, the photos are dated all the same in 1895.
Apparently, gas lamps are hung in the wards. They did not even begin to hang them in places on the ceiling, where electric lamps had hung before. It is quite possible that some structures under the plaster interfered there. But in general, because of the gas lighting, the columns inside the surgical ward were completely dismantled and the ventilation and heating system, which was powered by a fuel-free fireplace, was disrupted. As a result, the central and emergency lighting of the surgical ward were also dismantled, and the newly placed columns were isolated from the metal frame of the building with a beam. Individual lighting was left, but then at some time it was also dismantled and replaced with those lamps that we see in the 1969 photo. In addition, there is a possibility thatthat the metal tables near the dismantled columns were also part of the old primary power grid. They could be either heating elements, by analogy with a fireplace, or served as air ionizers by scattering the electric field from the columns. Now this is no longer recognizable.
Why was this all done? Most likely, no engineering mistake was made in the design of the building, and all the dismantled units functioned quite well. But in connection with the globalization of the economy and its orientation towards the consumption of hydrocarbons, some forces organized the transfer of this building to a fundamentally new type of energy consumption, completely destroying the old one. After that, the story was rewritten in the desired form, and we still use it. Alas, this is not an isolated case, similar processes were taking place all over the world. But back to the hospital buildings in Adelaide.
If you determine exactly where the surgical ward was located in the hospital building, then by the configuration of the windows in the photo we get the following place:
One of the circled pipes was the exit of that very fuelless fireplace. It is quite possible that there were two such fireplaces in the room, now it is no longer possible to determine. Probably, many are interested in the question of how electricity could appear in these fireplaces. To answer it, let's move on to another building - the building of the Adelaide Children's Hospital. But before moving on, let's see another interesting photo.
This is the entrance gate to Adelaide Hospital. At first glance, nothing unusual, if not for the design of the lanterns. This design is present in all photos, even the earliest ones. Obviously, the gasification did not touch the lanterns on the gates. They also worked on electricity, which came to them from the structures of the metal fence through a special conductor. Nothing new, similar designs have been discussed earlier in previous articles.
Continued: Part 2.
To be continued.