Word: stove
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doors." And again, "cold air should always enter near the top of the room, through the ventilator or over the upper sash, according to the direction of the wind." The temperature comfortable to the majority of persons is given as 68 Fahrenheit, and open fire-places, grates or open stoves are recommended as the best heating apparatus. "Any of these," he says, "ensures almost perfect ventilation, as well as supplies a pleasant and healthy warmth." Again as to sleeping rooms we find "the air should not be very cold. In winter either the sleeping room should open into a warmer...
...perfect ventilation and quick heating. There are two large rooms or wards, with two small rooms and bath-rooms adjoining. By this arrangement two different diseases can be treated here, and if occasion demands it eight students can be accommodated. In the basement is a kitchen with a cook stove and all necessary utensils, a laundry and cloacae. The house is heated by means of a furnace, and there are also fireplaces in each large room. These fires are always kept ready to be lighted, so that at a moment's warning the house can be warmed and made ready...
...room for the upper class crews is now ready for occupation and is a great improvement over the old arrangement; the room is well heated by a stove placed in the center, the bath is in one corner while the lockers are arranged conveniently around the wall, making nearly as good quarters as the 'Varsity have...
...light the fires without rising to do it. A correspondent who sends us the following extracts vouches for the accuracy of the statements therein made: "Van. constructed during the winter an apparatus which connected an alarm clock with a system of weights and pulleys, and these again with his stove door, so that when the machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop a weight, rattle a chair, slam shut the stove door and open the draft, all in a jiffy and without extra charge...
...nearest box was at the junction of Main street and Putnam avenue; but for some reason he was unable to open this, and much time was consumed while he made his way to Harvard square. There is little doubt but that the fire was caused by an overheated stove in the dark room, and speedy combustion was caused by the number of chemicals stored there. In round numbers the loss is estimated at $5000; insured for $1500. The chief loss, however, is in the large number of negatives that were in the operating room awaiting shipment to New York...