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In colonial America, most people warmed their homes by building a fire in a fireplace even though it was kind of dangerous and used a lot of wood. [[Benjamin Franklin]] rectified this unsafe method of heating by inventing, in 1742, the cast-iron stove, or what he called the Pennsylvania Fireplace and we know today as the Franklin Stove. The appliance allowed people to warm their homes less dangerously and with less wood. [http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/frankstove.htm]

In colonial America, most people warmed their homes by building a fire in a fireplace even though it was kind of dangerous and used a lot of wood.<ref name="Burns2005">{{cite book|last=Burns|first=William E.|title=Science and Technology in Colonial America|accessdate=27 May 2015|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|language=English |isbn=9780313331602|page=72|quote=A great problem for dwellers in early colonial houses in the North was heating them, a problem exacerbated by the coldness of the winters compared with those in Britain. Early colonists took advantage of the bountiful supply of wood to build large, centrally located fireplaces, twice the size of those they had known in England.}}</ref> [[[Benjamin Franklin]] rectified this unsafe method of heating by inventing, in 1745, the cast-iron stove, or what he called the Pennsylvania Fireplace and we know today as the Franklin Stove.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://appliancerepair.biz/Early_American_Stoves.pdf|title=Early American Stoves|coauthors=The Collector|publisher=ARP|page=234|language=English|accessdate=27 May 2015}}</ref> The appliance allowed people to warm their homes less dangerously and with less wood.<ref>[http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/frankstove.htm]</ref>

 

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