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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
The dimensions are given in iuches, and the price, in
Austrian florins, equivalent to about fifty cents in currency.
The price of packing ranges from six florins upward,
according to the size of the stove.
Another very interesting display of stoves of this descrip-
tion, and particularly of the tiles in great variety, was made
by Bernhard Erndt, (court potter) Vienna, whose manu-
factory is in the ix. Bezisk, Rossau, Pramergasse, No. 25.
The patterns of Ins tiles are peculiarly attractive, many
being deoply recessed and enamelled in bright colors,—
brown, green, blue, white and variegated. The stoves and
stove-tiles made in Berlin are in high repute, and are even
imported to Vienna. They are to be seen, among other
places in that city, in the rooms of the Engineers and
Architects’ Association.
It is evident that the manufacture of "porcelain stoves,”
the tiles for thern, and the fitting, constitute important
branches of industry in the German speaking countries.
Such stoves, especially as now made, and susceptible of
further improvements, have many great advantages over
other heating apparatus, and' might be introduced with suc-
cess in some sections of the United States. The followin°*
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are some of their merits, as compared with the ordinary
cast or sheet-iron stoves for heating apartmcnts.
1. Not being good conductors of heat, they radiate it
slowly and without sudden changes; and being bulky they
retain heat for a long time, and maintain an equable, mod
erate temperature in the apartmen t, even long after the
flre has burned out.
2. They do not scorch and "burn the air,” or the float-
ing particles of dust in it, as is the case with highly-heated
metallic stoves.
3. They combine to a great degreo the advantages of
an open fireplace and of a stove, giving Ventilation, per-
mitting the fire to be seen, while most of the heat is util-
ized,- being stored up in the mass of the tiles and slowly
radiated. Doubtless such stoves would fail to satisfy those
who require a red-hot surface, super-heated air, and little
Ventilation ; but many improvements might be made, so that
