Franklin stove
Estufa de Franklin (chimenea de Pensilvania)
- Date
- 1742 · confidence high
- Place
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Credited to
- Benjamin Franklin
- People
- 👤 Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A cast-iron metal fireplace with an air chamber and baffle that heated by convection and burned less wood. Franklin declined to patent it for the public good.
The original design drew poorly; David Rittenhouse improved it in 1780.
What it led to
- Efficient domestic heating and firewood savings
- Mass-produced cast-iron stoves
- The Enlightenment ideal of invention in the public service
Built on
- Wall fireplace with hood and fluec. century XII
- Coke smelting of iron1709
- Wall fireplace
- German Kachelofen (tiled stove)
Made possible
- Rumford stove
- American cast-iron stove