1883: Thomas Edison invented the electric heater.

Who invented first room heater?

Alexander Graham Bell invented the first electric heater in the late 1800s. He created a metal box with high-powered light bulbs inside that radiated heat into the room.

How were homes heated 1800?

“Up through about 1800, the wood-burning fireplace—very popular with English settlers—was the primary means of heating a home,” explains Sean Adams, professor of history at the University of Florida and author of Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century.