Heater

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OBJECT TYPE: N/A
DATE: 1870
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2013.0038.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: Dummy stove, Dumb stove
Patents: N/A
General Description: Brown rusted metal stove.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 41.5 cm
Width: 31.0 cm
Height: 86.0 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Domestic Technology
Category: Environment control
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Unknown
Period: Unknown
Canada: Like other countries where winter heating is an issue technology like dumb stoves was key to making the most efficient use of the fuel being burned.
Function: It redistributes heat generated from another source.
Technical: Dumb stoves were one of the technoligies used to extract every possible BTU from a given amount of fuel.The dumb stove usually did not have a firebox, but were connected by a stovepipe to a functioning stove on a floor below. The dumb stove allows the heat travelling up the stove pipe from a stove or heater on the first floor of a structure to be "reused" to heat a room on the second floor.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: Mfr's:"None/ "X.64.65.29" printed by hand in white ink on outside seam of stove.
Missing: Nothing is missing.
Finish: Brown rusted metal stove.
Decoration: None.

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Unknown Manufacturer, Heater, circa 1870, Artifact no. 2013.0038, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/2013.0038.001/

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