Click here to look at another type of collectible, or keep on scrolling for more Fans. This is a room heater, pretty much the opposite of a fan. The answer is that a whole lot of fan companies also made heaters, spreading their business over the whole year. There is, however, no motor. There is a heat element which is composed of nichrome wire wound around a ceramic core.
Electricity is delivered to the element and the core heats up.
The highly polished parabolic relector focuse the heat outward. The core could be replaced easily if the wire burned out. For my money, this is about the prettiest of these heaters that I have ever seen.