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A Franklin stove. The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1742. [ 1] It had a hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer more heat from the fire to a room's air) and relied on an "inverted siphon" to draw the fire's hot fumes around the baffle. [ 2]
Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties, and most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. In 2013, Sunset at Montmajour became the first full-sized Van Gogh painting to be newly confirmed since 1928 ...
Early works of Vincent van Gogh. List of works by Vincent van Gogh. Flowering Orchards (Van Gogh series) Hospital in Arles (Van Gogh series) Langlois Bridge at Arles (Van Gogh series) Portrait of Dr. Gachet. Saintes-Maries (Van Gogh series) Yellow House (painting) The Zouave.
Biedermeier room in the museum of Chrzanów, Poland Zimmerbild (chamber painting) of a Biedermeier interior in Berlin: fitted carpets, unified window, and pier-mirror draperies, and framed engravings in a restrained classicising style, around 1825, by Leopold Zielcke (1791–1861) Biedermeier furniture is admired for quality craftsmanship and ...
Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American artist and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for American Gothic (1930), which has become an iconic example of early 20th-century American art. [ 1]
Rumford fireplace. The Rumford fireplace is a tall, shallow fireplace designed by Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, an Anglo-American physicist best known for his investigations of heat. Its shallow, angled sides are designed to reflect heat into the room, and its streamlined throat minimizes turbulence, thereby carrying away smoke with ...
A stove or range is a device that generates heat inside or on top of the device, for local heating or cooking. Stoves can be powered with many fuels, such as electricity, natural gas, gasoline, wood, and coal . Due to concerns about air pollution, efforts have been made to improve stove design. [ 1] Pellet stoves are a type of clean-burning stove.
Here are 10 crucial questions to ask both yourself and others when buying a house. 1. What’s my total budget? Don’t waste your time looking at houses without first understanding how much house ...