Tagged: drying

Titanic's boiler-room fans came from a tea planter's works

Samuel Davidson, once a planter in Cachar, founded a Belfast works that developed tea machinery, and its Sirocco fans forced air into Titanic's boiler rooms.

Fired to Three Percent, and What Burns to Get There

Firing drives a fermented Assam batch down to about 3 percent moisture in about twenty minutes of hot air, the number that decides whether the leaf keeps or rots.