Pistorius distillery

Section through a Pistorius apparatus, dephlegmator with two Pistorius basins.

The Pistoriussche burning apparatus or Pistoriussche apparatus is a 1817 by the merchant and distiller Johann Heinrich Leberecht Pistorius in Weissensee trumped- burning apparatus for the production of brandy from potatoes .

On March 21, 1817 he received a patent for the “express right to use and manufacture a peculiar distilling apparatus.” This dephlegmator made the production of brandy so easy and cheap that agriculture in Brandenburg was converted within a short time.

literature

• Johann Heinrich Leberecht Pistorius: Practical instructions for distilling spirits, together with a description of my distilling apparatus, Berlin 1821 (2nd edition, edited according to the latest experience and published by F. Lüdersdorff, Berlin 1841)
• Friedrich Lüdersdorff : Description of the Pistorius steam burner, 2nd verb. Edition, Veit & Co., Berlin 1835

Web links

• http://www.preussen-chronik.de/_/ereignis_jsp/key=chronologie_005330.html
• Meyer's Konversationslexikon from 1888 with a picture of the apparatus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Illustration from Les merveilles de l'industrie ou, Description des principales industries modern de Louis Figuier, Paris, Furne, Jouvet, [1873-1877].

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