Mystery French Technology

[major_clanger]

Seen last week in a French museum (of what, I'm not saying for now...)



[Poll #1854264]

Comments

[emmzzi.livejournal.com]

looks like most of the stills I've seen!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

It's a shower, I tell you: a modern instance of a Victorian shower. You stand within and pull the chain, and whoosh!

[fjm.livejournal.com]

My first thought too.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

It looks an order of magnitude smaller than a modern lavender still. (5 tonnes of lavender packed in, steam blown over it, about 50 kg out.)

On the other hand, it is a museum, so it could be an old one, before the days of real mass production.

You were also down in the lavender producing region of France, so I'm going with that option.

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

That's my reasoning too.

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

If I hadn't already seen the answer on Twitter I probably would have guessed at some kind of wood gasifier.

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

No idea, but it looks rather interesting.

[drplokta]

Since we were in the same museum six weeks ago, I shall refrain from completing the poll.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I think it might be something to do with freezing or refrigeration.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

My answer is based on the colour of the staining :-)