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the original draft engine, turning fire's chaos into a tidy upward escape route
means A vertical structure that channels smoke and gases from a fire or furnace up and out of a building.
from From the Latin 'caminus,' meaning furnace or forge — itself borrowed from the Greek 'kaminos,' a kiln or oven. That Latin root passed into Late Latin 'caminata' (a room with a fireplace) and then into Old French 'cheminee,' which English took up in the 1300s. So the word carries its hearth inside it: at its core, a chimney has always been about the fire as much as the flue above it.
- tall trick
- Taller chimneys pull smoke harder via stack effect
- sweep peril
- Victorian child sweeps risked deadly soot cancer
- santa myth
- Predates Christianity in Norse hearth-spirit lore
- world record
- Kazakhstan's stack towers 419 meters skyward
- fire hazard
- Creosote buildup causes thousands of house fires yearly
leaning chimney of bomarzo — 16th-century italian structure that tilts at 6 degrees, visible at the villa orsini in bomarzo
london's big ben smokestack — houses of parliament chimney that famously released blue smoke when new popes were elected until 2013