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Normal 0 14 false false false IT X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Tabella normale";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin-top:0cm;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0cm;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}From the fires of primitive men to the stube, fromthe ancestors of the fireplaces to modern heating systems, the man has alwaysfound new ways to heat the places he lives in. Throughout history the man hasstudied and found new methods to make the spaces he lives in warmer, thuscosier and more liveable, and describing in a detailed way all thesedevelopments would be very hard, especially if you think that the fire wasdiscovered 400,000 years ago, and it is not difficult to understand that inhundreds of thousands of years the developments and changes in this field havebeen numberless. Here are some essential steps in the history of heating. As said above, the discover of fire, thus of the firstmethod to produce warmth as well as to cook food, produce light and defendoneself against animals dates back to 400,000 years ago. Everybody knows thatthe fire discovery occurred by accident, and in the beginning the man was notable to make fire alone, and all he could do was keep it alive: later on hefound a way to make fire autonomously. From these primitive fires the man has thenexperimented many other heating systems. In the pre-Hellenic civilizationsthere was already an ancestor of the fireplace, which stood in the main room ofthe house, and the smoke produced by fire went out through a hole on theceiling. This type of fireplace was used for a long time, until wood began tobe replaced by other nonflammable materials, like rocks and bricks, also toward off the danger of fires. Rock walls made it possible to build flues, andconsequently to use wall fireplaces. The first wall fireplaces appeared in thecolder countries of the north, and became popular also in the rest of Europebetween the 13th and the 14th century. In addition to fireplaces, anotheressential instrument to warm rooms has always been the stove. The first modelsof stoves were characterized by a cylindrical, pyramidal, compact or barrel shape,and were built with refractory bricks. The external part was covered withceramic decorations, with majolica or plaster. Starting from the 15thcentury, stoves began to have also an important aesthetic function, and becamea real decorative feature of the house. Nowadays there are many other ways to warm up a house,from radiators to underfloor heating, but both stoves and fireplaces are stillappreciated not only for practical, but also for aesthetic reasons. The latestmodels of stoves and fireplaces are certainly very different from the ones thatdominated the rooms of our ancestors, and with the passing of time many typesof stoves and heaters have been launched on the market, like pellet stoves, whichare notably popular at the moment, and modular tiled stoves. And the producersof heaters and stoves are paying more and more attention not only to thefunctionality of the object, but also to its aesthetic feature, as they aredealing with objects that are now considered as an important component of thefurniture of a house, and not only as instruments to produce warmth.
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