Flame Throwers
or FLAMMEN- WERFER, were used by the Germans attack. They consisted of a cylindrical vessel of steel, approximately two feet in the World War as a weapon and hydrogen in the proportion necessary long and fifteen inches in diameter, to form water, which is one of the hottest divided internally into two compartflames we have at our command. The ments. The upper compartment conmost luminous flames are from gases which contain just sufficient solid matter to give the maximum of incandescence without any of its particles passing away unburnt. Olefiant gas and the ordinary coal gas are good examples of this as compared with the oxyhydrogen flame, which contains no solid matter on the one hand, and the flame of pitch or turpentine on the other, which contains too much carbon, the excess passing off tained nitrogen under a pressure of twenty-three atmospheres, while the lower was filled with inflammable oil. The cylinder was strapped to the back of the operator, and toward the base was affixed a valve to which was attached a short length of flexible hose ending in a nozzle.
On opening the valve the oil was forced out under pressure and moved an automatic friction lighter which ignited the oil, thus producing a spray of "liquid Keystone View Company A SEAL ROOKERY ON ST. PAUL, ONE OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS, WHICH BELONG TO ALASKA Enc. Vol. 4-p. 148 Ewing Galloway A FISHING BOAT LEAVING BOSTON HARBOR Colonial Press Service HOISTING A TUNA FISH FROM A SPILLER TRAP INTO A FISHERMAN'S SMACK Colonial Press Service PURSING THE SEINE NET FOR "SARDINE" FISHING IN THE NEW BRUNSWICK FISHING GROUNDS Colonial Press Service A CATCH OF HERRING, NEW BRUNSWICK FISHING GROUNDS Photo by Ewing Galloway A FLEET OF OYSTER SCHOONERS LEAVING BIVALVE, N. J., TO FISH IN THE DELAWARE RIVER FLAMMENWERFER OR FLAME-THROWER IN USE BY GERMANS ON THE WESTERN FRONT OF THE WORLD WAR British and Colonial Press FLAX SPINNING IN A CANADIAN MILL Underwood & 'nderwood A VIEW ON THE TOMOKA RIVER, FLORIDA, SHOWING TYPICAL VEGETATION AND AN ALLIGATOR IN THE FOREGROUND American Photo Service THE CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE DAME AT RHEIMS, AT THE CLOSE OF THE WORLD WAR FLAMINGO fire," which was directed toward the novelist"; born in Montigny-le-Roi, enemy. The oil was a carefully compounded mixture of light and heavy components, the lighter portion being either gasoline or ether, and the heavier portion higher boiling petroleum oils.