1837 “how to” article on coal heating

Hello:

Found this really informative article on use of anthracite coal in home heating. Link below

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Vq00AAAAMAAJ& ... e&q&f=true

Written by a Yale professor with amazing detail. It’s a difficult read but worth the effort as the principals hold true today. I had to look up a few definitions but really enjoyed it hope you do too.

He is a bit of a gas bag, but a really good read.
Thanks

Well done, but as tsb noted has that Victorian disease of wordiness.

Thanks for posting that link. It confirms the reasons why baseburner stoves can operate over such a wide temperature range efficiently.

it also makes clear the full understanding of combustion and radiance already in place by 1837 and how it obviously "drew" stove engineering forward from mere cylinder stoves of "Russian iron " with larger areas of barrel surface to back pipe oaks, then baseheater oaks, to the simplest suspended basebuners and finally the mica radiators most with duplex grates, some with double heater features and still others with 2 piece revolving fire pots

sadly by the 1920's the whole industry of science and art was left behind except for the remnants of working pieces and those having the experience and need of economy to run them.

after 2 world wars and the great depression we are very fortunate there are any of them left at all.

Glad you enjoyed it. I was trying to find some literature on the my new to me prizer’s range and stumbled across it by chance. Many of us run stoves conceived from this era. Kind of cool to hear such an in depth article from that time. Take care and stay warm hopefully this cold snap is over. Brrr