Almanac: The Franklin stove. June 11, ... Franklin's cast-iron creation was designed to fit inside a fireplace, to solve the problem of too much heat going up the chimney, ...

Not that Franklin's stove worked perfectly: "There's one minor design flaw to Franklin's design -- the outtake for the smoke is in the bottom, and smoke rises, and unfortunately smoke was retained ...

Franklin Stove. Most 18th century homes were heated by fireplaces that were inefficient on many fronts. They used a lot of wood, lost a lot of heat, and posed the risk of sending sparks into ...

Wood stoves, a technology that has been around for hundreds of years, have been updated for the 21st century with vastly improved energy-efficiency and pollution control features.

Previously, fireplaces in Colonial homes were inefficient and smoky. Franklin’s stove gave homeowners a second option. The Franklin Stove, enclosed in iron, provided more heat with much less ...

Though Benjamin Franklin is credited with its invention, the Franklin stove is really the culmination of improvements made over time to his Pennsylvania fireplace, which he produced in 1741.

Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin Gene Barretta, . . Holt, $16.95 (40pp) ... the Pennsylvania Fireplace (later renamed the Franklin stove) and the odometer ...