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by allowing the gases to escape into the chimney. Mica-front stove. (Pollok, 1807.) Littlefield, in 1853 (Fig. 5913), had a grated fire-pot at the lower part of the magazine-cylinder. Magazine-furnaces. （Stratton, 1817 and 1822.) Sexton, in 1856 (p, Fig. 5920), had a covered fuel-cylinder in the fire-chamber. Magazine-stoves. （Nott, 1830) (Mott.) (Harper and Walker, 1839.) Cantelo's U. S. patent in 1859 (Fig. 5921) shows a petticoat fuel-cylinder projecting downward into the fire-pot. Magazine-stoves. (Cantelo, 1846.) (Walker, 1849.) Base-burner. （Grant, 1850.) Roney, in 1861 (Fig. 5922), had a grated fire-pot of larger diameter than his magazine. Magazine-stoves. （Liddel, 1852.) (Sexton, 1856.) There are in the United States about 350 foundries engaged in the manufacture of stoves and furnaces, using annually 500,000 tons of iron. Of stoves alone it is estimated that the 275 foundries engaged in the business in 1871 produced 2,200-200 sto