A major innovation was the development of hypocaust, or indirect radiant, heating, by conducting heated air through flues in floors and walls.
Heating, by contrast, does soften metal, potentially changing its acoustics.
We also calculated the ocean heating by using 40 state-of-the-art climate models.
The US goal for solar heating by 2020 is 200m square metres.
Five thousand cold-water flats in this city must be provided with central heating by 1958.
"In Bergen, it is hard to ban heating by logs because of other health-related worries, including people freezing.
The aim is to make the county's two largest towns, Tralee, and Killarney, self-sufficient in heating by 2016.
Households: The Lib Dems would require all new homes to be built to the GreenHouse standard (which means no fossil fuels are required for space heating) by 2011.
The polymerization of amino acids to form long proteinlike molecules ("proteinoids") was accomplished through dry heating by American biochemist Sidney Fox and his colleagues.
As just one example, it has been suggested that the volcanic activity of Jupiter's satellite Io is the consequence of internal heating by frictional resistance to tidal deformation.
Fuel may be fed into the furnace on a moving chain grate or, for small units (even some for home heating), by a moving screw.
