FIRE-ENGINE

a machine for throwing | shell fi ‘& continuous jet of water to extinguish | of fist ‘a fire. The principle of compre ing air | the Se within a chamber containing water, by out th ‘alternating pistons, is the one employed./ pPysE power is employed, and, in order to/ 1841, | a cag generation of stcam, a gas and ch is kept in the fire box of the engine | He co as It Stands ready in the Fire Station, and | andria. pecial light and clean fuel is used. and st Sep RECAPES - olla by whose —: may escape from the upper part | contr lee tereing baiidines The London Brigade great 1 Fire Escape consists of a ladder with three | of the rt ' o> Gea on alight | Reform can t an undersiope of netting | the O. ‘down which one may slide with safety.| [s. 144]