stoves

Explains how to build, buy, install, and operate fireplaces and wood stoves.

Text and color photographs explain the history, operation, and inner workings of stoves and ovens.

An old man, his wife, and their rooster enjoy the delicious pies their magic stove bakes for them, until a greedy king comes to visit.

Follows the up-and-down fortunes of an iron pot belly stove from its manufacture on 1888 through a century of changing fashions in heating.

A woman remembers her childhood in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota, when a wood-burning stove, the Range Eternal, provided a center to her home and her family, providing food, warming feet on cold mornings, and chasing away the ice monster at night.

Discusses the installation, repair, and use of wood fireplaces and stoves, how to make them energy efficient, and the mechanics of maintaining a fire.