Antique bath chip heater
Overview Commonly known as a “chip-heater”, they provided domestic hot water from about the 1880’s until the 1960’s. In Australia the invention of the “Chip” Bath Heater in the 1880’s provided a great solution to the problem of a hot bath, and ingenious invention, it was a cylindrical unit with a fire box and flue and a small water tank a pipe was run through the heater, and this circulated the water through the firebox. The heater was installed in the bathroom usually on a raised area at the e