. Coast review. « o -o a - a if ru * &> 1 Ancient Fire oldest fire engine in England is atDunstable, bearing the date lo70 AtHereford is one of the Vaude Heide sfire engines that was presented to thatcity AD. 1670 by P. Foley, Esq., to fire engines are found invery early times. In an illustrated sixthcentury Latin manuscript of the bpir-italia of Hero of /Alexandria, who lived-JOO vears before the Christian era, is de-linekted the Egypti^n fire engine of theauthors time, with its double forcepump, valves, lever arms, goo«e neck, andprobably, too. its air chamber. I
. Coast review. « o -o a - a if ru * &> 1 Ancient Fire oldest fire engine in England is atDunstable, bearing the date lo70 AtHereford is one of the Vaude Heide sfire engines that was presented to thatcity AD. 1670 by P. Foley, Esq., to fire engines are found invery early times. In an illustrated sixthcentury Latin manuscript of the bpir-italia of Hero of /Alexandria, who lived-JOO vears before the Christian era, is de-linekted the Egypti^n fire engine of theauthors time, with its double forcepump, valves, lever arms, goo«e neck, andprobably, too. its air chamber. In 1666an act of Parliament was passed lequir-ing a large-sized brass syringe to bekept in each ward of the city of London,and to be worked by the respective Al-dermen The London Gazette of August14 1676 refers to letters patent grantedto Mr. Wharton and Mr. Stroud, for anew invention for quenching fire with amachine with leather pipes to carry agreat quantity of water in a continuousstream to the top of a
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