An Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place

Description: An Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place Good+ - Text Unmarked - Binding and Cover Clean and Tight - Document Mending Tape - Ready to Ship By -- Benjamin Franklin, G.K. Hall & Co. Published by -- G.K. Hall & Co., 1973, Boston MA, 37 Pages, Reprint, Illustrated, Fold-Out Diagram, Paperback, 8.25" X 5.25" X .2", 4 oz. [LEADING TEXT]"Domestic needs of the Franklin household may well have been the inspiration for the Pennsylvania Fire-Place. It was probably during the winter of 1739-1740 that Benjamin Franklin sent his model for it to Robert Grace's Warwick Forge in Chester County to be cast in iron. (...) It takes little imagination to picture Franklin contemplating, perhaps with some wifely urging, a way in which his new home could be made more comfortable without increasing expenses. He was successful. Some years later he wrote, "My common room, I know, is made twice as warm as it used to be, with a quarter of the wood I formerly consumed there." Franklin's innovation soon attracted attention. By the following winter he and Robert Grace advertised in The Pennsylvania Gazette, "TO BE SOLD at the Post-Office Philadelphia, The New Improved Fire-Places; Where any Person may see some of them that are now in Use, and have the Nature and Advantages of them explain'd." In 1744 the two men had decided to widen their market, so Franklin wrote and Grace paid for the printing of the pamphlet which is reproduced here." #BooksBooksBooks #Bookstagram #CoverArt #WoodBurningStove #readersofinstagram #Rare #Antiquarian #FranklinStove #PennsylvanianFirePlace #bookcollecting #Pennsylvania #bibliophile #booksale #Scarce #GKHall&Co #Bookworm #CuttleboneBooks #collectiblebooks #Books #FirePlace #Vintage #instaread #BenjaminFranklin #instabooks #Reprint #booksforsale

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