Franklin stove

Example Sentences

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But I was working on gaining back some of the weight I’d lost, and we’d bought us a tidy modest outfit with a barn and some pasturage and a kitchen without even a hand pump indoors, and an old-fashioned Franklin stove—not one of those modern self-cookers like Miss Lizzie is making a killing off building for the rich people’s houses.

From The Verge

Dickinson had a Franklin stove fitted to a bricked-up fireplace to keep her warm, which meant that she could write by candlelight, with the door closed, for as long as she wanted.

From The New Yorker

He’s living temporarily rent-free in an old cottage on a small rural property that relies on a Franklin stove for heat.

From Seattle Times

Okay, you’re unlikely to be as creative as Ben Franklin, who invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, and a carriage odometer.

From Forbes

We all grow up learning of the practical backyard inventor — the guy who fiddled his way into creating the energy-efficient Franklin stove, the lightning rod or even the earliest odometer so he could measure his carriage rides.

From New York Times