American inventions and inventors . luxury to the wealthiest families two centuriesago. Can we look forward to the changes that may come in thefuture in the methods of heating our houses and cooking ourfood? Already railroad cars are being heated by steam fromthe engines and electric cars are heated by electricity. Al-ready oil stoves and gas stoves have come into common useand are found to possess many advantages: No ashes needremoval; the fire may be started without delay; the room is HEAT—MATCHES. 57 less heated than with a coal fire; and the blaze may be turnedout when no longer needed. Al
American inventions and inventors . luxury to the wealthiest families two centuriesago. Can we look forward to the changes that may come in thefuture in the methods of heating our houses and cooking ourfood? Already railroad cars are being heated by steam fromthe engines and electric cars are heated by electricity. Al-ready oil stoves and gas stoves have come into common useand are found to possess many advantages: No ashes needremoval; the fire may be started without delay; the room is HEAT—MATCHES. 57 less heated than with a coal fire; and the blaze may be turnedout when no longer needed. Already in some parts of thecountry natural gas is led by pipes directly from the wellsinto houses for cooking and for heating purposes. Alreadyexperiments in heating houses and cooking food by meansof electricity are common and to some extent successful. Itwould seem that the inventions and improvements of thenext hundred years may render the homes as much morecomfortable than those of to-day as ours surpass those ofour THOMAS A. EDISON. SECTION 6o AMERICAN IxWENTIONS AND INVENTORS. KXkX4-^-S
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