Canadian machinery and metalworking (July-December 1917) . FIG. 2. EMERGENCY MEASURING METHODS 38 CANADIAN MACHINERY Volume XVIII. PLAYING HOSE STREAMS ONCHARGED ELECTRIC WIRES FROM the earliest days of the adap-tation of electricity to commercialpurposes there has been, saysThe Travelers Standard, a more or lesshazy notion that turning a stream ofwater on a live wire is a highly danger-ous proceeding. Only a few years agothe statement was frequently made inthe newspapers that firemen were hamp-ered in their efforts to control a fire be-cause of their fear of directing a streamof water on a hi
Canadian machinery and metalworking (July-December 1917) . FIG. 2. EMERGENCY MEASURING METHODS 38 CANADIAN MACHINERY Volume XVIII. PLAYING HOSE STREAMS ONCHARGED ELECTRIC WIRES FROM the earliest days of the adap-tation of electricity to commercialpurposes there has been, saysThe Travelers Standard, a more or lesshazy notion that turning a stream ofwater on a live wire is a highly danger-ous proceeding. Only a few years agothe statement was frequently made inthe newspapers that firemen were hamp-ered in their efforts to control a fire be-cause of their fear of directing a streamof water on a high-tension circuit. Sucha notice appearing in a paper to-daywould reflect on the efficiency and stand-ing of the particular fire department re-ferred to. A study of the question hasbeen made, with the result that everymodern fire department has the neces-sary equipment to protect the firemenfrom shock. This equipment is in theform of rubber gloves and boots, in-sulated handles on the nozzles, a marlinecovering over all hose connections, orother equally effective
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