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  2. Rumford fireplace - Wikipedia

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    Rumford fireplace. The Rumford fireplace is a tall, shallow fireplace designed by Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, an Anglo-American physicist best known for his investigations of heat. Its shallow, angled sides are designed to reflect heat into the room, and its streamlined throat minimizes turbulence, thereby carrying away smoke with ...

  3. Fireplace insert - Wikipedia

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    A fireplace insert is a device that can be inserted into an existing masonry or prefabricated wood fireplace. Most fireplace inserts are made from cast iron or steel. Fresh air enters through vents below, circulates around the main chamber (where it heats up), then exits through the chimney. Fireplace inserts have insulated glass doors that ...

  4. Franklin stove - Wikipedia

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    Franklin stove. The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1742. [1] It had a hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer more heat from the fire to a room's air) and relied on an "inverted siphon" to draw the fire's hot fumes around the baffle. [2]

  5. Prepare your fireplace for fall: Expert tips for a safe and ...

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    To check for draft issues, Beauduy suggests placing a small piece of tissue in the center of the fireplace. If it starts to sway back and forth, it will give you an idea of how much draft is ...

  6. Flue-gas stack - Wikipedia

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    A flue gas stack at GRES-2 Power Station in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, the tallest of its kind in the world (420 meters or 1,380 feet) [1]. A flue-gas stack, also known as a smoke stack, chimney stack or simply as a stack, is a type of chimney, a vertical pipe, channel or similar structure through which combustion product gases called flue gases are exhausted to the outside air.

  7. Chimney - Wikipedia

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    Chimney. A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human living areas. Chimneys are typically vertical, or as near as possible to vertical, to ensure that the gases flow smoothly, drawing ...

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