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Description of a Kitchen Stove. By Samuel Dickey, 

 Comtnimicated to John Miller. 



Read April 12th, 1808. 



Oxford, Chester County, February 29th, 1808, 

 Dear Sir, 



There arc few subjects on which the ingenuity of 

 man can be employed to better purposes than devising 

 the means of promoting oeconomy in the consumption 

 of fuel. Already our cities and their neighbourhoods, 

 feci the severe efibcts of a scarcity in this article. But 

 the time is not far distant, when tliis scarcity will be 

 felt in a much higher degree ; and many parts of the 

 interior country that are yet hardly affected, will suffer 

 most of all as vrood is the only fuel there attainable. — 

 Though much has been done by the inventions of in- 

 genious men, much still remains to be done, and par- 

 ticularly in kitchens, where, it is the universal com- 

 plaint, that much the greatest consumption takes place. 

 My thoughts have been occasionally turned from the 

 direct pursuits of agriculture, to this subject, and some 

 experiments have been made which have terminated in 

 the invention of a kitchen stove or closed fire place, 

 which I flatter myself may be of service to society. — 

 To cover the expence incident to such inventions, and 

 which cannot ordinarily be reimbursed in any other 

 ^vay, it has been thought necessary to secure the ad- 

 vantages (if any there may be) by a patent. As the en- 

 couragement of such inventions comes within the view 

 ©f the association, I trouble you to present to the socie 



