Angier March Perkins was an American engineer who worked most of his career in the United Kingdom and was instrumental in developing the new technologies of central heating.
Details of furnace and expansion tube from Perkins' 1838 Patent
An oven is a tool that is used to expose materials to a hot environment. Ovens contain a hollow chamber and provide a means of heating the chamber in a controlled way. In use since antiquity, they hav
A double oven
A ceramic oven
Oven depicted in Jean-François Millet's painting, Woman Baking Bread (1854)