Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 861
rsimple heat-ing, as of watei or food,undoubtedly somewhatpreceded the larger em-ployment of gas, eitherfor general cookingpurposes or for warm-ing. The natural suc-cession has been theconstruction of appa-ratus for intense anddirect heat for thepreparation of food,and for continued anddiffused… … STOVES AND HEATING FURNACES. 827 of gas-logs, so called, being semblances of fuel in log form in metal, asbestos, etc., and suppliedwith gas-piping, for fireplace use. Such use of gas, and hence the manufacture of conveniencestherefor, appear to be in the main confined to the United States,…
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