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History of Heating - How Humans Learned to Heat Their Homes (And What It Cost)
For most of human history, warmth was never just comfort. It was something you built, bought, got taxed for, and sometimes died from.
In this episode of the Hidden History Podcast, Aiden Thomas traces how we learned to heat our homes: the open fire in the middle of the room, the Roman hypocaust and the Korean ondol, the chimney and the 1662 Hearth Tax that let constables count your fireplaces, the killing winters of 1683 and 1709, Valley Forge, the 1952 London smog, Benjamin Franklin's stove and the ironmonger who patented it, the boiler that blew a shoe factory apart, the first thermostat…
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