Putnam, J. Pickering (John Pickering), 1847-1917 · Boston, Ticknor and Co. · leaf 118
m, with theircharacteristic slowness to adopt new and foreign methods, to have stub-bornly refused to follow any other course than that laid out for them byRumford. The Germans are satisfied with their porcelain stove. The French have been so busy working- up the Gauger fireplace thatthey have not… … Fig. 126. The Country Parsons Grate. The fireplace given in Figs. 126 and 127, for instance, just broughtout in England with eclat, indicates the tendency in that country. A cor-respondent of the London Times of January 30, 1*77, writes of this formof fireplace: it has excited much attention, for I…
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