- 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...
- An
electric fireplace is an
electric heater that
mimics a
fireplace burning coal, wood, or
natural gas.
Electric fireplaces are
often placed in conventional...
- "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
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...
- A
fireplace fireback is a
piece of
heavy cast iron,
sized in
proportion to the
fireplace and the fire,
which is
placed against the back wall of the fireplace...
- 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
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
outdoor fireplace is a
place for
building fires outside of the home.
Similar in
construction to an
indoor fireplace, an
outdoor fireplace is usually...
- by any
combination of
reredos (a low,
partial wall
behind a hearth),
fireplace, oven,
smoke hood, or chimney.
Hearths are
usually composed of masonry...
-
types of
tools commonly used to tend a
small fire, such as an
indoor fireplace fire or yule log: the spade, the
tongs and the
poker itself.
These tools...
