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His father had called it a cashalofen. He had learned the principle from a Russian man at the Bavarian border, though what the Russian had called it, his father had never written down.

The stove in the drawing had a ledge built into its upper section, a raised sleeping … His father had called it a cashalofen. He had learned the principle from a Russian man at the Bavarian border, though what the Russian had called it, his father had never written down.Read more

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On one page near the middle of the journal was a drawing of a stove, not a box stove in the American manner, a massive structure of fired brick with an internal flu that bent back on itself multiple times before reaching the chimney, forcing the combustion gases to surrender their heat to the brick before escaping.

His father had called it a cashalofen. He had learned the principle from a Russian man … On one page near the middle of the journal was a drawing of a stove, not a box stove in the American manner, a massive structure of fired brick with an internal flu that bent back on itself multiple times before reaching the chimney, forcing the combustion gases to surrender their heat to the brick before escaping.Read more