A History of Gas Stoves

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　The first person to develop a gas stove was the Frenchman Philippe Ruben, who obtained a patent for a device that could be used both for lighting and heating with gas on September 21, 1799. The following year, Ruben installed this device himself at a restaurant in Paris, at his own expense. Ruben’s device was not popular and did not get widespread adoption because it emitted an unpleasant odor. Nevertheless, he continued to study and improve this device with great enthusiasm. In 1804, on the day of Napoleon’s coronation, Ruben was murdered on a street in Paris, and work on developing gas stoves came to a halt. The world’s first gas stove for cooking in kitchens was invented in 1826 by James Shaff, the deputy manager of the Northampton Gas Company in Britain. He installed the gas stove he invented in his kitchen to use for grilling meat and cooking. It is a vertical stove that consists of hooks hanging from the ceiling for hanging meat, along with a circular flame opening at the bottom. A stove without a pot holder. The first to purchase gas stoves were bus stations in Limoges, France. In 1834, the Bus Hotel used gas stoves to prepare dinner for 100 people; not only was the food delicious, but there was also no smell of exhaust fumes at all, making them highly ideal stoves. In the summer of 1836, a factory employing 35 workers was established in Northampton, England, dedicated to the production of gas stoves. In 1852, stoves that combined the gas burning device with the stove surface, as used today, began to be sold. In 1915, gas stoves equipped with thermostats began to appear. In 1855, the German chemist Bunsen invented a gas combustion device known as the \"Bunsen burner\", which is a device that produces high temperatures by burning a mixture of oxygen and flammable gases. Less than a year after the invention of the Bunsen burner, Hoddington Anton Smith’s company in Britain created the world’s first domestic heating device powered by gas fuel. Later, with the gradual spread of gas stoves and a steady supply of gas, the gas stoves we see today came into being.