Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1896 — Boiling Water with a Wire. [ARTICLE]

Boiling Water with a Wire.

An electric boiler device, adapted to be applied to any pot or kettle, has been patented to F. W. Schindler Jenny, of Kenelbach, Austria-Hungary. This invention comprises a ring-shaped heating body of refractory insulating material containing resistance wires and surrounded by a suitable protection casing. > A handle is attached to this ring for raising or lowering into or out of a pot or kettle. The resistance wires are connected to an electric circuit by suitable insulated wires passing up through the handle. If it is desired to boil a pot of potatoes, the ring is lowered into its pot by its handle and the current switched into the resistance wires in the ring. The latter immediately becomes hot because of the heat generated in the wires by the resistance of the same to the electric fluid. In a few minutes the water in the pot will be boiling and the potatoes cooked, The ring can then be removed and washed and the coffee boiled in the same manner. The pots and kettles all rest upon the top of an ordinary wood table during the process of cooking. The sight of a pot boiling while resting on a table and with only a small flexible wire extending into the same is indeed a very unusual one, and would no doubt excite many modern housekeepers greatly upon seeing the same.