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Detailed explanation-1: -Franklin stove, type of wood-burning stove, invented by Benjamin Franklin (c. 1740), that was used to warm frontier dwellings, farmhouses, and urban homes for more than 200 years.

Detailed explanation-2: -Also Rittenhouse changed the U-shaped flue system to an L-shaped system to allow for better smoke ventilation. While he called his invention the Rittenhouse stove, it become better known as the Franklin stove.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1742. It had a hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer more heat from the fire to a room’s air) and relied on an “inverted siphon” to draw the fire’s hot fumes around the baffle.