- A
fireplace or
hearth is a
structure made of brick,
stone or
metal designed to
contain a fire.
Fireplaces are used for the
relaxing ambiance they create...
- "The Girl in the
Fireplace" is the
fourth episode of the
second series of the
British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was
first broadcast...
- The
Rumford fireplace is a tall,
shallow fireplace designed by Sir
Benjamin Thompson,
Count Rumford, an Anglo-American
physicist best
known for his investigations...
- The
fireplace mantel or mantelpiece, also
known as a chimneypiece,
originated in
medieval times as a hood that
projected over a fire
grate to
catch the...
- The
Franklin stove is a metal-lined
fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who
invented it in 1742. It had a
hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer...
- An
electric fireplace is an
electric heater that
mimics a
fireplace burning coal, wood, or
natural gas.
Electric fireplaces are
often placed in conventional...
- Furnace, Pennsylvania, US, the
fireplace insert is a
device inserted into an
existing masonry or
prefabricated wood
fireplace. Joab was a 59-year-old coal...
- and
often enclosed to
varying degrees by any
combination of reredos,
fireplace, oven,
smoke hood, or chimney.
Hearths are
usually composed of masonry...
- An
outdoor fireplace is a
place for
building fires outside of the home.
Similar in
construction to an
indoor fireplace, an
outdoor fireplace is usually...
- An
inglenook or
chimney corner is a
recess that
adjoins a
fireplace. The word
comes from "ingle", an old
Scots word for a
domestic fire (derived from...
