Fireball
a ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be explosion, or to set fire to their works. in the World War (1914-1918).
A popular name applied to a certain class of meteors which exhibit themselves as globular masses of light moving and worked by steam. The steam fire steam of more than 100 pounds pressure engines have been greatly improved, and minutes after making the fire. Some of on the square inch can be raised in seven these engines throw a jet to a vertical on the square inch can be raised in seven of pipe. Gasoline motor-driven engines minutes after making the fire. Some of stantly and make 35 miles an hour. The now largely in use can be started in- FIRE ESCAPES same engine drives and pumps the water.
Those preferred are six cylinders of 70 h. p. pumping 700 gallons of water a minute. Chemical engines, motor driven, are within the means of the smallest towns and require only two men and a pilot to operate.
FIRE ESCAPES are of two distinct kinds-one for affording aid from outside, and another for enabling those within the house to effect their own escape. Of the latter the simplest is a cord that should be firmly attached to the window sill of every sleeping apartment, and coiled either in a box on the floor, or under a dressing table, or other suitable place. A rope one-quarter or three-eighths of an inch thick, and knotted at intervals of about one foot, is well adapted for the purpose. A pulley fixed to the window sill, over which runs a rope with a chair or simple board to sit on, is a well-known contrivance. Fire escapes, to be used from without, consist either of simple ladders kept at convenient stations, or a series of ladders that can be joined together; or ropes with weights at one end that they may be thrown or shot into windows. Large buildings generally have permanent iron stairways attached to the outer walls for use in the case of fire.