Invention Timeline - Gardner Chilson, American Inventor and Manufacturer of Stoves and Furnaces; Among His Inventions are Conical Radiators, Applied to Stoves
b. ? 1804 and d. November 21, 1877
American inventor and manufacturer of stoves and furnaces. Among his inventions are conical radiators, applied to stoves, 1854, a cooking-range with two ovens placed above the fire and arranged so that either may be used (1858) and an office stove surmounted with a broad disk, which radiates heat toward the floor (1865).
Lo! where the chimney’s sootry tribe ascends,
The fair Trochaid from the corner bends,
Her coal-black eyes upturn’d incessant mark
The eddying smoke, quick flame, and volant spark;
Mark with swift ken where flashing in between,
Her much-lov’d smoke-jack glimmers thro, the scene;
Mark how his various parts together tend,
Point to one purpose, in one object end.
1200—Chimneys were first introduced in England, but were confined to kitchen and large hall.
1200—Fire grates first used. The hearths of the early Britons were fixed in the centre of their halls. The fire-place originally was perhaps a large stone depressed below the level of the ground to receive the ashes. Chafing dishes were in use until the introduction of chimneys.
1325—Stoves were first used.
1444—Smoke-jacks were in use, and in 1571 Bartolomeo Scappi, cook to Pope Pius V., described them in his cook-book.
1747—Col. William Cook’s method of heating by steam pipes was described in the Gentleman’s Magazine, p. 171.




