Cob: Russian and other cold-weather stoves.

[Amanda Peck]

As I posted, I first heard of the beast in Russian literature.  Pre-Soviet.  
But it does strike me that the Cold War would have led American--or North 
American--manufacturing associations to avoid the word Russian.  Or the name 
of a Russian.  Also some of the members of the association claim other 
ancestries for their product--French and Swedish pop up immediately.

Podgorodnikov apparently died in 1958, so this explanation makes pretty good 
sense.  The search that gave me that tidbit came from the MHA, in the 
document Darel mentioned.  It's in Word-Pad, by the way, accessible to ALL 
Windows users, at least.

http://mha-net.org/docs/v8n2/kuznetsov/freegasprinciple.doc

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