can any one tell me about the source of heat in 1937? and how was it compared to today?

Question

souce of heat meaning how did the stove worked? with electricity or gas? wat kind of gas? and jow was it delivered?

Answer 1

Sure,
most private homes were heated by coal. Though central heating was too expensive for the average person. Many houses had coal fireplaces, in the major rooms.
The oven was also used a heat source, at least in small houses.
Fuel oil, typically kerosene was also popular, especially in the NorthEast US.

Answer 2

It was mostly wood or coal. Very little if any central outside of large towns. In the large cities they had some central, mostly steam or hot water with radiators. They knocked and banged and made a bit of noise at times from air getting into the systems. An awful lot of people in towns relied on open air gas fired heaters. These had a burner bar across the bottom with fire brick type material across the back. The flame was in the open and you a lot of kids got burned on them. If you needed more heat you opened the gas valve a bit and ran the flame higher. The houses were not well insulated, if they had any at all. People generally wore more clothes in the home than they do today as the houses were drafty and not evenly heated.
Central heat and insulation, as we know it today, didn't come into common usage until after WWII. The house I grew up in had a wood/coal stove in the living room and a wood fired range in the kitchen. We kids slept upstairs without heat. When our Dad got up he got the fire stoked up and then called us. We ran down stairs and fought for the best locations around the stove while we dressed. The fires in the living room and kitchen stoves were never allowed to go out during the winter. If we got a warm day and the house seemed stuffy we might open a window. That was rare though as that old farm house was very drafty.

Answer 3

1937--Ah...I remember the big tall coal and wood stove that kept us warm during those cold Kansas winters. At night, my folks "banked" the coals (covered the embers with ash) which kept them alive until morning and could be restarted quickly. There may have been propane?? back there, that came in small tanks delivered--but I'm not sure WHEN those came in. Wood and coal were the primary sources of heat during The Depression. How did it compare? Certainly didn't heat like Central Heating of today where the heat is constant and even throughout the house! The heat radiated out into the room from the stove and the farther away one was, the COOLER it was! AND had to be constantly FED, meaning someone had to go out in the rain or snow and bring in another load!