The Stove Revolution

Published: 10/4/2010 Tags: american identity, energy, energy consumption, history of comfort, history of technology, home and hearth, leisure, social history

The following audio clip is excerpted from the BackStory episode “Climate Control: A History of Heating & Cooling.” You can listen to the entire episode here.

Historian Howell Harris explains why the Franklin Stove was mis-named, and what winter was like in the North before the stove revolution caught fire.

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Excerpted from: Climate Control: A History of Heating & Cooling