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Hopewell Furnace stove, 10-plate cooking model, with a lower firebox and upper oven for baking. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in southeastern Berks County, near Elverson, Pennsylvania, is an example of an American 19th century rural iron plantation, whose operations were based around a charcoal-fired cold-blast iron blast furnace.
The Atlanta Stove Works company was founded in 1889 (originally named Georgia Stove Company) to produce cast-iron stoves. Initially, their business boomed to the point where in 1902, a separate foundry was built in Birmingham, Alabama, especially for the production of hollow ware and cast-iron cookware to supplement their stoves.
In 1642, at Lynn, Massachusetts, the first cast-iron stove was constructed. This stove was little more than a cast-iron box with no grates. [8] Benjamin Franklin designed the "Pennsylvania fireplace", now known as the Franklin stove in 1742, which incorporated the fundamental concepts of the heating stove. The Franklin stove used a grate to ...
As workers were repairing a cable during maintenance work, a support cable snapped, causing the roadway to fall into the 50-metre-deep Mahakam River. Although poor maintenance, fatigue in the construction material of cable hanger, and the quality of material may have been the cause of the collapse, the exact cause remains unknown and undetermined.
In manual transmission vehicles, the parking brake is engaged to help keep the vehicle stationary while parked, especially if parked on an incline. [2] [3]While automatic transmission vehicles have a "Park" gear that immobilizes the transmission, it is still recommended to use the parking brake, as the parking pawl in the gearbox could fail due to stress or another vehicle striking the car ...
Later bridges constructed utilizing cables of iron chains appeared in Tibet. [307] [308] 4th century: Fishing reel in Ancient China: In literary records, the earliest evidence of the fishing reel comes from a 4th-century AD [309] work entitled Lives of Famous Immortals. [310] 347: Oil Wells and Borehole drilling in China. Such wells could reach ...
In Franklin's stove, a hollow baffle was positioned inside and near the rear of the stove. The baffle was a wide but thin cast-iron box, which was open to the room's air at its bottom and two holes on its sides, near its top. Air entered the bottom of the box and was heated both by the fire and by the fumes flowing over the front and back of ...
Interior of a typical goods brake van. Immediately to the left of the doorway is the stove and stove pipe; to the left of this are a firebucket, ducket (blanked off) and sandbox; in front of the stove is the sanding lever; to the right are the handbrake, vacuum brake handle, vacuum gauge and seat