"The oldest certain account of chimneys, is in the year 1347. An inscription at Venice, records... a great many chimneys (molti comini) were thrown down by an earthquake."
— Fireplace

January 1, 1970

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Ref: , Beiträge zur Geschichte der Erfindungen (1780–1805) Tr. William Johnston, History of Inventions) (1797) Vol. II, p. 103.