Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back-to-wood movement has gone from a slow burn to a blaze in the past three years. Many of the leading manufacturers and importers of wood-burning stoves (prices range from $75 to $1,000 and up) report that they are sold out for months to come. Even so, an estimated 500,000 wood stoves-$150 million worth-will be installed in the U.S. this year alone. Riteway Manufacturing Co., of Harrisonburg, Va., one of the leading makers of wood-burning stoves, has doubled production in the past year, and is preparing to build a new plant...
Woodburners are proclaiming their passion with bumper stickers on gas guzzlers. One message: BURN WOOD. BE A SON OF A BIRCH. There is even a magazine for the hot-stove league: Wood Burning Quarterly and Home Energy Digest, which, after only 18 months, is in the black with a circulation...
...near the fire, you have that cold draft of uncomfortable air nipping your back and heels ... by which many catch cold, being scorched before, and, as it were, froze behind." Which is why he devised "the New-Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place"-better-known as the Franklin stove-which, he boasted, made his room twice as warm with a quarter as much wood as a conventional hearth. Franklin never patented his promethean invention, wishing to share its back-to-front benefits with the world, and a variety of stoves modeled on his old reliable are manufactured...
What the Franklin stove accomplished was a long, slow burn, achieved by limiting the amount of oxygen reaching the wood; it also trapped the heat inside the combustion chamber so that it radiated more evenly throughout the room. Modern stoves have become even more efficient through airtight construction, the use of baffles that pass the hot air back over the flame to improve combustion (and heat) and in some cases thermostats and blowers that circulate the warm air. Although some heat is thereby lost, in many stoves the doors can be temporarily folded back, leaving a clear view...
...giving an unconscious impression of Woody Allen: "A man with a sack stands in the doorway, and when I walk up the stairs he grabs my ankle and stuffs me into his sack. He sits on my mouth all the way home and later, sitting by his stove, eats hot noodles from my naked belly." Still, such moments are well worth enduring for the author's stern intelligence and overriding awareness of social forces. In his own eccentric way, the city planner is trying to understand the dispiriting decay of his time and his place. He wants to reconcile...