The Distillation of Seawater on Ships in the 17th and 18th Centuries
@article{Haarhoff2009TheDO,
title={The Distillation of Seawater on Ships in the 17th and 18th Centuries},
author={J. Haarhoff},
journal={Heat Transfer Engineering},
year={2009},
volume={30},
pages={237 - 250}
}The distillation of seawater, from our perspective, is a trivial heat transfer application. Its historical development for seaboard use, however, was a slow, arduous process, over almost two centuries before these systems were commonly embraced by the seafaring community. This slow progress is shown to result from a combination of factors—an erroneous belief that some additives had to be added to seawater before it could be properly distilled; unfamiliarity with the toxic effects of the copper… CONTINUE READING
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