The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 213
e, especially as where the largest fires maybe expected water is generally least wanted tor other purposes; be-sides, it appears wrong in principle to employ a power which de-creases exactly in proportion to the extent to which it is used, inde-pendent of the great loss by friction in the leather… … Fig. 2,—Common Fire-plug, 1845.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 177 The difterent moiics of obtaining watiT from tho mains or pipes areshown in the accompanying drawings. Fig. 2 is a section of a com-mon pUig when not in ose. Fig. 3 is a section of the common plug,with a canvas dam or…
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