. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . CAPTAINS OF FIKE PATROL. 982 V I li K .M K N. n ncment building, No. 103 Washington Street, on the afternoon of July 21, 1882, and inconsideration of which this Board authorizes the Fire Patrol Committee to have prepared agold medal of honor, the same to be presented to Patrolman McCann, as a token of the appre-ciation of tliis Hoard for his heroic services in tlie cause of humanity. The committee are constantly in receipt of communications praising themembers of the Patrol for
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . CAPTAINS OF FIKE PATROL. 982 V I li K .M K N. n ncment building, No. 103 Washington Street, on the afternoon of July 21, 1882, and inconsideration of which this Board authorizes the Fire Patrol Committee to have prepared agold medal of honor, the same to be presented to Patrolman McCann, as a token of the appre-ciation of tliis Hoard for his heroic services in tlie cause of humanity. The committee are constantly in receipt of communications praising themembers of the Patrol for good and gallant, FIRST WAGON FOR CARRYING COVERS. O U R F J R E M E N. <J83 CHAPTER LV. THE HAND AND STEAM KIKE ENGINES. Their Origin, Growth and Development.—Fire Apparatus in Use Before the Christian Era.—The Force The invention of Fire of the Air Chamber. Introduction of Leather Hose.—Newshams and Simpkinss Inventions.—Ericssons Portable Steam Engine, Etc., Etc. THE invention of the fire-engine is of great antiquity and involved some-what in obscurity. In chronicles relating to the destruction of cities byfire about the commencement of the Christian Era, and particularly con-cerning the burning of the town of Nicomedia in Bytbania, the lack of ma-chines or apparatus proper for extinguishing the flames was mentioned. Thevoid sipho, used in said chronicles, being translated and so understood gen-erally as meaning fire engines. Hesychius and Isidorus, who lived in the be-ginning of the seventh centiny, prove that in the fourth century at least alire engine, prope
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