It may seem odd to some that an inanimate piece of mechanical equipment could spark fond memories. But replace “coal furnace” with “first car” and you’ll gain a sense of what I mean. In its day, our ...

Iron Fireman Manufacturing Co. of Portland, Ore. makes more automatic coal stokers than any other firm. In the last few years it has grown so big that it no longer has one annual dealers’ convention.

Merrily skewering the sanctities of Russian hearth, home and military service, tragicomedy is a deeply cynical allegory about an Afghan war vet who fuels the furnaces of a suburban St. Petersburg ...

Rare is the bright young businessman who would not like to get control of a good little company, manufacture a good product, sell it under a good trade name. Two young men who did that were Thomas ...

Coal stokers, shapers, tube cutters, automatic segregators, fuel systems, grinders, test unit for high-speed cylinder development, trimming dies and equipment. Combustioneer automatic coal burner ; ...