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History of the Gas Stove

Gas stoves use propane, butane, natural gas and liquified petroleum gas as the source of fuel for cooking food. The first gas stove was developed around the early 1820s, with the first patented gas stove was patented by James Sharp in Northampton, England around the mid 1820s. Even though the first gas stove factory was build in 1851, it wasn't until the 1880s that this form of cooking became popular in every home. The main delay in the popularity of the first gas kitchen stoves was the slow growth the the gas pipeline networks needed to run the fuel into homes.

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