A Stove Less Ordinary
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Thirty Degrees Below Zero, 1856
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In January 1856 "F.W.S.," the editor of The Knickerbocker 's "favorite 'Up-River' correspondent," ("Win...
Monday, April 1, 2013
A Chilly February in Troy, NY, 1855
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A reader of and contributor to The Knickerbocker explains why inhabitants of the northern United States were so enthusiastic about the tech...
The Pleasures of the American Winter
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"Table-Talk," Appletons' Journal of Literature, Science and Art vol. 4, no. 90 (12 Dec. 1870), p. 742, http://books.goog...
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Fire-Worship," December 1843.
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This is one of the best and most famous literary responses to the coming of stove heating. It was originally published in The United States...
Holy Smoke: Warming Churches
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Churches and meeting houses were the commonest public buildings in the United States, and presented particular challenges to any congregati...
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Hot-Air Furnaces and Air-Tight Stoves, 1848
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[ The point of this and the preceding article is to give examples of something quite common in magazines for progressive country-dwellers fr...
Quercus, "Warming Houses," 1834 [furnaces, Nott stoves]
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Quercus, “WARMING HOUSES,” The Genesee Farmer 4:2 (11 Jan. 1834): 13-14. In one of my communications last winter, [vol 3, p. 30,] on...
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