Erica K.'s List: 2Erica My Research page

• • I used this page the most because it had all the different types of ovens over time.
• ncient people first began cooking on open fire
• By the middle ages, taller brick & mortar hearths, often with chimneys were being built.
• One masonary design of note, was the 1735 Castrol stove (aka stew stove) invented by French architect François Cuvilliés
• Around 1800, Count Rumford (aka Benjamin Thompson) invented a working iron kitchen stove
• Jordan Mott invented the first practical coal oven in 1833
• 1826, the first semi-successful gas
• ate 1920s and early 1930s that electric ovens began to compete with gas ovens,
• The microwave oven was a by-product of another technology. I
• around 1946 that Dr. Percy Spencer, an engineer

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