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these accumulations are found, with often the old crane in place. 

 At one period there was a great demand for cast ovens and hot- 

 water tanks to be set in the fireplace. It is evident that we have 

 testimony here of the coming together of the various elements that 

 have joined to form the cook stove with all modern conveniences. 

 The warming stove has a more direct lineage from the pot stoves 

 described. The cook stove is an assemblage of things used inde- 

 pendently in other stages of progress. It must not be overlooked 

 that fuel has had an important part in the development of the cook 

 stove. The important modifications of the cook stove have occurred 

 since charcoal was superseded by wood and coal; that is, devices 

 were brought forward for consuming these fuels. 



The Museum collection contains a curious and interesting relic 

 consisting of a stove of old whaling days. It is a ship's stove with 

 attached warming and cooking oven. It has sheet-iron sides and 

 bottom, and cast-iron top with two holes and lids. In front is a 

 valve with pivoted shutter. On the sides are ring drop handles. 

 There are gadgets on the bottom for receiving the iron plates by 

 which the stove was securely fastened to the floor. The oven is 

 hung on two pins as in the old barn door and is formed to fi.t 

 against the curved sides of the stove. The stove is provided with 

 joints of stovepipe, pans, etc. It was patented June 22, 1875, by 

 H. L. Dunklee, Boston, Mass. It is said to have been the first sheet- 

 iron stove. Wood was burned in it. (PI. 786, fig. 4; Cat. No. 

 325606, U. S. Fish Commission ; 21.3 inches long, 13 inches wide, 

 11.8 inches high (54 cm., 33 cm., 30 cm.).) 



A model gives an idea of the Norwegian stove built of tiles and 

 forming an ornamental piece of house furnishing. In using, wood 

 is placed in the fire box and a flue opened. The wood is lighted, 

 allowed to burn a little while, when the door is shut and the flue 

 closed. The heat generated at first is sufficient to continue the 

 combustion of the wood. The warmth is slowly diffused through 

 the structure of the stove and passed on to the air in contact with 

 the surface of the stove. (PI. 79, fig. 2; Cat. No. 167114, Mrs. 

 Emma Brinton, model 9.1 inches (23 cm.) high.) Dr. Leonhard 

 Stejneger informs me that the installation of fire in the house 

 was formerly in the ample fireplace as in America and that the 

 tile stove was an introduction from Germany. 



There have been many inventions whose idea was the furnishing 

 of compact forms in which small amounts of heat could be applied 

 to temporary uses as the case might require, and others strove to 

 compress in convenient form all that might be demanded of a 

 range completely equipped with cooking vessels. One of these 

 combinations, a stove lamp, was collected in the Philippines during 



