ALICE PARKER was the first man who invented the heating furnace?
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Alice Parker, a woman, from Morristown, New Jersey was awarded a patent on 23 December, 1919 for the invention of "a new and improved heating-furnace".
The original patent can be viewed at the US Patent and Trademark Office at
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-parse...
click on 'Images' to view or
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/pto/sear...
and search for Patent Number 1,325,905
Of course this was not the first heating furnace invented, rather a new and improved model.
This other article may also be of some interest
http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/b...
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