ON STOVES AND CHIMNEYS.
The general Properties of Heat, Conduction, Convection, Radiation,
Reflection—Cooking done by Radiation the simplest but most
wasteful Mode: by Convection (as in Stoves and Furnaces) the
cheapest—The Range—The model Cooking-stove—Interior Arrangements and
Principles—Contrivances for economizing Heat, Labor, Time, Fuel,
Trouble, and Expense—Its Durability, Simplicity, etc.—Chimneys: why
they smoke, and how to cure them—Furnaces: the Dryness of their
Heat—Necessity of Moisture in warm Air—How to obtain
and regulate it 182