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Wolfgang Schroeter invented the first wood-burning stove with a cast iron frame and glass door. This allowed the user to see the fire burning inside the stove. [16] A fireplace insert converts a wood-burning fireplace to a wood-burning stove. A fireplace insert is a self-contained unit that rests inside the existing fireplace and chimney.
Modern open fireplace An outdoor fireplace. A fireplace or hearth is a structure made of brick, stone or metal designed to contain a fire. Fireplaces are used for the relaxing ambiance they create and for heating a room. Modern fireplaces vary in heat efficiency, depending on the design.
There are four original "Rumford" fireplaces, all with original mantels and woodwork. (Parlor, dining room, and two front bedrooms upstairs.) A Rumford fireplace is the then-popular tall, shallow fireplace invented by Benjamin Thompson, or Count Rumford, a loyalist physicist who fled to Europe after the Revolution where he was made a Count. [18]
A 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]
The California Register program promotes the public acknowledgment and safeguarding of resources possessing architectural, historical, archaeological, and cultural significance. It plays a role in identifying historical resources for both state and local planning, assessing eligibility for state historic preservation grant funding, and ...
The Dawson Brothers Plant is a historic factory building located at 517-519 N. Halsted Street in the West Town community area of Chicago, Illinois.The factory was built in 1888 and designed by Julius Zittel; the five-story brick building has a cast iron front on its first floor and lacks ornamentation.
Paul and Nancy Fong prepare meals for the lunch rush at the Chicago Cafe in Woodland. The family diner, established in 1903, was recently recognized as California's oldest Chinese restaurant.
Government buildings in Chicago (1 C, 7 P) H. Historic American Buildings Survey in Chicago (8 P) ... 214 South State Street; 300 West Adams Building; 400 East Randolph;