Mechanics' magazine and register of inventions and improvements . ntof water, and the further delay of getting theengines into full action, it reaches a height atwhich its reduction is highly doubtful, and atleast very difticult. Many instances of destruc-tion by fire have been caused by obstructionst« the conveyance of engines to the spot, orfrom the impossibility of procuring water toenable them to act when they have arrived; andin every case some delay necessarily takes placein preparing the engines, even when water is athand. It is a well-known fact that many of thegreat and destructive fi
Mechanics' magazine and register of inventions and improvements . ntof water, and the further delay of getting theengines into full action, it reaches a height atwhich its reduction is highly doubtful, and atleast very difticult. Many instances of destruc-tion by fire have been caused by obstructionst« the conveyance of engines to the spot, orfrom the impossibility of procuring water toenable them to act when they have arrived; andin every case some delay necessarily takes placein preparing the engines, even when water is athand. It is a well-known fact that many of thegreat and destructive fires in London and otherlarge towns, where water-pipes are laid, mighthave been controlled if water could have beenobtained in time. In towns not so provided, viUlages, the detached residences of gentlemen,and other buildings in the country, the want ofwater at hand, or other means of extinction,makes their total destruction in case of fire al-most observations which I have made in wit- Captain Manbys Plan for the Speedy Extinction of Fires. 139.
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