Photograph of a salamander stove.
The salamander stove is a stove invented in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, which was the first modern heating system not integrated into the construction. It allows a better combustion regulation and better smoke control than the traditional home, which also means saving fuel.
It has the disadvantage that the combustion takes place in the environment to be heated and that, although it implies fuel savings, it uses polluting materials (firewood, gasoline or mineral coal). It is an improvement of the traditional stove and consists of a cast iron box with a latticed window through which the fuel is added, which rises from the floor generally by means of some legs and from whose upper part a chimney pipe exits to expel the smoke.
Its name evokes the mythical salamander who, it was believed, could live in the fire and not be burned.
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