. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . 995 rate of between sou and gallons per minute. It has thrown waterthrough a I, inch nozzle to a horizontal distance of \!:>5 measured feet. It waspurchased by the Government and placed for service in the Royal Dockyardsat Ionporl • In the same year a steam lire engine for the Imperial Library at !!, was designed and constructed by .Mr. T. W. Cowan, engineer,of Greenwich. The boiler, engines and pumps were carried on a wroughtiron framing, ; inches deep and
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . 995 rate of between sou and gallons per minute. It has thrown waterthrough a I, inch nozzle to a horizontal distance of \!:>5 measured feet. It waspurchased by the Government and placed for service in the Royal Dockyardsat Ionporl • In the same year a steam lire engine for the Imperial Library at !!, was designed and constructed by .Mr. T. W. Cowan, engineer,of Greenwich. The boiler, engines and pumps were carried on a wroughtiron framing, ; inches deep and J inch thick, strengthened with angle iron andmounted on springs, t he whole being carried on four wheels. The weight ofthe engine was four tons, and it was drawn by three horses, when using de-livery hose of 2J inch diameter with a nozzle of li inches and a steam pressureof 120 lbs., a height of 170 feet and a distance of 210 feet were obtained. In IS:> Mr. EgestorlV, of Hanover, constructed a steam lire engine for thefire engine establishment of that city. The cylinder was 8$ inches by 9 inches. NEW YOKK FIREMAN AND ENGINE. and the pumps 7 inches; the valves metal of the description known in Hano-ver as Carretts. In the same year Messrs. Merryweather & Sons constructeda small steam lire engine for the Alton Volunteer Fire Brigade. The machinehad a single steam cylinder and pump, the cylinder being G| inches by 18inches stroke, and the pumps 4J inches diameter and 18 inches stroke. Theweight was 25 cwts. One of these 25 cwt. single cylinder engines was foundto have exerted a power equal to 32^ horses, or 1£ horse power for each engine. In this year Messrs. Shand, Mason & Co., constructed 17 steamfire engines, two for the London Fire Brigade, two for Lisbon, three for theBombay and Barsoda Railway Company, four for Russia, two for New Zea-land, one for Austria, one for Poland, one for Denmark and one for Dublin. In 18(55 Mr. William Roberts constructed his third s
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