AGA cooker
The
AGA cooker is a stored-heat cooker invented in
1922 by the
Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist Dr.
Gustaf Dalén (
1869 -
1937), who also founded the
AGA company. The cooker was introduced to England in
1929, and its popularity in certain parts of English society (owners of medium to large country houses) led to the term "
AGA Saga" being used to refer to a genre of fiction set amongst stereotypical AGA owners. The heavy iron castings inside the cooker are made at Coalbrookdale in
Shropshire, on the site of
Abraham Darby's original iron works where the modern method of iron
smelting was invented.
External links:
For the Amiga AGA chipset, see
Advanced Graphics Architecture