Wood-burning Stove - Types

Types

  • Franklin stove, invented by Benjamin Franklin, is a more efficient type of wood-burning stove.
  • Carl Johan Cronstedt is reported to have increased efficiency of wood-burning stoves by a factor of eight in the mid-18th century.
  • A Fireplace insert converts a wood-burning fireplace to a wood burning stove. A fireplace insert is a self-contained unit that sits inside the existing fireplace and chimney. They produce less smoke and require less wood than traditional fireplaces. Fireplace inserts come in different sizes for large or small homes.
  • Down draft or cross draft gasification stoves, i.e. Dunsley Yorkshire, Welkom 600, Avalon Arbor™ wood stove, XEOOS.
  • Boiler Stoves provide hot water as well as space heating. A backboiler can be an optional insert added to the back of the firebox, or a wrap around water jacket that is an integral to the stoves structure. The choice determines how much of the stoves output goes to space heating as opposed to heating water.

  • A chimenea, burning wood for heat.

  • A Daruma stove, a traditional Japanese wood-burning stove.

  • A ceramic-tiled kachelofen wood-burning stove in an Alsatian house, Strasbourg, France. Wooden laundry-drying racks hang over the stove.

  • A New Mexico woman cooking on a stove typical of North American kitchens, in 1941.

  • A wood-burning sauna stove, Finland.

  • A custom-fitted fireplace insert with large glass doors, and a large heat exchanger for efficiency.

  • A wood stove used as an outdoor "evaporator" for producing maple syrup, New York State.

  • A small pot-bellied stove, Kabul, Afghanistan.

  • Stove in the living room of a German farm

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