A wood-burning stove is a heating or cooking appliance capable of burning wood fuel, often called solid fuel, and wood-derived biomass fuel, such as sawdust bricks. Generally the appliance consists of a solid metal closed firebox, often lined by fire brick, and one or more air controls. The first wood-burning stove was patented in Strasbourg in 1557. This was two centuries before the Industrial Revolution, so iron was still prohibitively expensive. The first wood-burning stoves were high-end consumer items and only gradually became used widely.
A 19th-century example of a wood-burning stove
Wood-burning stove heating a grocery store in Detroit (1922)
Spencer woodstove in British bungalow at Pollibetta, India
Traditional Himalayan Tandoor
Wood fuel is a fuel such as firewood, charcoal, chips, sheets, pellets, and sawdust. The particular form used depends upon factors such as source, quantity, quality and application. In many areas, wood is the most easily available form of fuel, requiring no tools in the case of picking up dead wood, or few tools, although as in any industry, specialized tools, such as skidders and hydraulic wood splitters, have been developed to mechanize production. Sawmill waste and construction industry by-products also include various forms of lumber tailings.
Wood burning
Campfires have been used for ages: fires are integral to humanity.
Charcoal, a derivative of wood, was traditionally an important fuel in ironmaking and other processes
Ceramic stoves are traditional in Northern Europe: an 18th-century faience stove at Łańcut Castle, Poland
