What is this type of electric fire call? http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/6199/...

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Answers:    That appears to be a steam radiator.
In buildings a radiator is a heating device, which is warm by steam from a boiler, or by hot water person pumped through it from a water furnace (usually, if not moderately accurately, referred to as a "boiler").

Such radiators transfer the majority of their warmness by radiation and by convection.

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It is a steam radiator