. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . of it in a small work whichwas published in 1720; but at first he kept the construction a secret. Tin;engines which he sold consisted of a strong copper box closely shut and wellsoldered. They weighed no more than lii pounds, occupied little room, hadonly one cylinder, and a man with one of them could force up the water with-out interruption to the height of from twenty to thirty feet. Alton) I I hiFay saw one of Leupolds engines at Strasburg, and discovered by conjecturefihe co
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . of it in a small work whichwas published in 1720; but at first he kept the construction a secret. Tin;engines which he sold consisted of a strong copper box closely shut and wellsoldered. They weighed no more than lii pounds, occupied little room, hadonly one cylinder, and a man with one of them could force up the water with-out interruption to the height of from twenty to thirty feet. Alton) I I hiFay saw one of Leupolds engines at Strasburg, and discovered by conjecturefihe construction of it, which he made known in the Transactions of theAcademy of Sciences at Paris for that year. It is singular that on tinsoccasion l)u Fay says nothing1 of Mariotte or of the engine in the kingsbinary. Another improvement, no less useful, is the leather hose added to the en-gine and to which the lire pipe is applied, so that the person who directs thejet of water can approach the fire with less danger. This invention belongsto two Dutchmen named Jan and Nicholas van tier Heide, who were inspectors. AMERICAN FIRE ENGINE, 1789. Of the apparatus for extinguishing tires at Amsterdam. The first public ex-periments made with it took place in l7-.\ and were attended with so muchsuccess that at a lire next year the old tire engines were used for the last,time, and the new ones introduced in their stead. In liili the inventor ob-tained an exclusive privilege to make these engines during a period of twenty-five years. In 1682 engines on this construction were distributed in sufficientnumbers throughout the whole city, and the old ones were entirely laid K>; there were in Amsterdam sixty of these engines, the nearest six ofwhich were to be employed at every fire. In the course of a few years theywere common throughout all the towns in the Netherlands. The employment of flexible hose strong enough to bear a good pressure ofwater has in no small degree increase
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