Heating Collection (page 11)

Social / Bringing Firewood
Two children bring home a barrow-load of firewood for the Christmas fire

Cooking on the Moon may prove a problem to astronauts, but perhaps solar heating could provide the power ?

Peat Cutting / Scotland
An old woman gathering bricks of peat and transports it in a cart pulled by a grey pony

Heating Stove
Metal stove

Keeping Warm in Bed
Keeping warm!

Trouble with the Logs
A gentleman having considerable trouble with his fire

Woman Sits by Fire / 1867
A woman sits before the fire, warming her toes

A Log on the Fire / 1856
Putting a log on the fire

Smokey Fireplace / Cartoon
Sir Pompey Bedell: " This wretched chimney has got into a most objectionable way of smoking! I can t cure it" Bedell Junior: " Give it a couple of your cigars!"

Preparing the Opium
A Chinese opium dealer prepares the opium, heating it gently over coals

Greenland Bedroom
Sleeping accommodation in a Greenland home - each compartment has its own heating in the form of a small fire. I don t know what those sticks or poles are for

Spensers Gas Lighting
The Spenser system, using gas from ordinary petrol, provides lighting, heating and cooking throughout the house, including irons, towel rail, hot water by day or night

Domestic Lighter
The domestic lighter enables one to light a number of items without requiring a match for each - useful, for example, when lighting the candles on a Christmas tree

Primitive Firemaking
Our first ancestors made fire by rubbing sticks together : they used fire for heating, cooking and toolmaking

Carron Fiegrate
Carron XVIII century design firegrate, blending XVIII Century Grace with XX Cebtury utility

Electric Fire
The Raymond electric fire depicted in a traditional fireplace. It costs L3 10s and is fitted with a handle so it can be carried from one room to another

Gathering Peat
Gathering peat for fuel, in the highlands of Scotland

Sawing Firewood
Sawing logs for firewood

Women from the Rear
Viewed from the rear, most ladies are happy to bare most of their backs, hoping for adequate central heating

Advert / Daylight Oil 1921
Advertisement for Royal Daylight Oil for lighting, cooking and heating

Fireplace / Bailey & Son
Fireplace by Messrs Bailey & Co displayed at the 1851 exhibition at Crystal Palace

French Incubators-
Dr Tarniers Couveuse pour Enfants (= incubators) in use at La Maternite Hospital, Port Royal, Paris; introduced in 1881, gas heating maintains temperature at 32o Celsius

Paranormal / Firewalking
Firewalkers of Fiji take 12 to 15 seconds to cross a pit of stones which have been heating for two days; they use no special preparations

Futuristic central heating
A futuristic form of central heating, using radium -- perhaps not the healthiest of ideas, as it is radioactive?

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