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Here's a cool little bit of gear from the past. Alexis Soyer's Magic Stove! I like the design. It's certainly got style. 
"...the Magic Stovethe first version of which he registered with the patent office in 1849was more Omar Khayyam than Aristotle, gesturing toward a world of leisurely comfort as well as heavenly flavors. The small, portable burner was designed to run on pressurized fuel and to have sufficient heating power to cook a meal in a couple of minutes.4 The Magic Stoves first appearances in the great outdoors reflected the grandiosity of its gentlemanly origins. Normanbys request for a pyramidal trial was not the most outlandish: Mad Lieutenant Gale, a daredevil hot-air balloonist, wanted to take the Magic Stove on board, but died too soon in a botched ascent. Explorers took the stove with them on their expeditions. In 1850, the Admiralty ordered some Magic Stoves for Captain Horatio Austins expedition to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin, prefiguring Amundsens use of the Primus stove on his journey to the North Pole."
"...the Magic Stovethe first version of which he registered with the patent office in 1849was more Omar Khayyam than Aristotle, gesturing toward a world of leisurely comfort as well as heavenly flavors. The small, portable burner was designed to run on pressurized fuel and to have sufficient heating power to cook a meal in a couple of minutes.4 The Magic Stoves first appearances in the great outdoors reflected the grandiosity of its gentlemanly origins. Normanbys request for a pyramidal trial was not the most outlandish: Mad Lieutenant Gale, a daredevil hot-air balloonist, wanted to take the Magic Stove on board, but died too soon in a botched ascent. Explorers took the stove with them on their expeditions. In 1850, the Admiralty ordered some Magic Stoves for Captain Horatio Austins expedition to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin, prefiguring Amundsens use of the Primus stove on his journey to the North Pole."
