Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1913 — Earliest Chimney. [ARTICLE]

Earliest Chimney.

The oldest certain account of a chimney places it in Venice in 1347. None of the Roman ruins show chimneys. j The chimney of antiquity was a hole in the roof. A kitchen in Rome was always sooty, and the wealthy Romans used dry wood, which would , burn without soot.