Fire Engine
a machine employed pose of extinguishing fires. This name was formerly applied to the steam engine. Machines for the extinguishing of fires have been used from a very early date. They were employed by the Romans, and are referred to by Pliny; struction. Hero of Alexandria, in his but he gives no account of their conably about 150 years before the Christian treatise on pneumatics - written probera-proposition 27, describes a machine which he calls "the siphons used in conflagrations." It consisted of two cylinders and pistons connected by a reciprocating beam, which raises and lowers the pistons alternately, and thus, with the aid of valves opening only toward the jet, projects the water from it, but not the aid of valves opening only toward the FD.N.Y FIRE APPARATUS-ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY ENGINE in use in Boston, and improvements such sive feature have brought the fire-alarm system to its present perfection. in a continuous stream, as the pressure ceases at each alternation of the stroke.
The first application of the steam fire engine was made when the Argyle Rooms The first application of the steam fire TILLERY; EXPLOSIVES; GUN POWDER; ing fire engines have been constructed ORDNANCE; Eтc.