"Baltimore heater" nghĩa là gì?


"Baltimore heater" = máy sưởi Baltimore -> nghĩa là lò sưởi cho hai tầng nhà, với cửa đốt lửa ở tầng dưới. 

Ví dụ
Latrobe possessed (có) the creative gene. He was a patent lawyer and inventor who gave us the Latrobe stove, patented as the Baltimore Heater, a cast iron parlor stove that fit into a fireplace. The stove, filled with coal (than), had pipes attached to channel warm air to other parts of the house through metal connections within a chimney (ống khói).

Most fireplaces were outfitted (trang bị) beginning in the 1870s with a "Latrobe Stove.”  These devises were invented in Baltimore, Maryland by John Hazelhurst Latrobe (1803-1891), the son of noted engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and are sometimes coined a “Baltimore Heater.” 

The Latrobe Stove was also called Baltimore Heater, Parlor stove or Fire-place Stove and initially (ban đầu) made by the Latrobe Stove foundry (lò đúc).  JHB Latrobe was a multi-talented man - B&O railroad lawyer, inventor, helped found and led organizations such as the Maryland Historical Society, and more HERE.

Ngọc Lân

Tags: ngoclanword

Post a Comment

Tin liên quan

    Hôn nhân

    Suy ngẫm