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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 550

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poles-length of the harness,automatic door-openers, and practically everyquick-hitching device for which American fire-de-partments are noted. And in addition to steamfire-engines, aerial ladder-trucks, and hose-wagons— the latter very much of the same type as thoseused in this country —there are a… … A PARIS AUTO FIRE-ENGINE. tical-looking affairs, carrying a large square tankcontaining 400 gallons of water, which is giventhe necessary pressure to reach the top of any ofthe buildings by means of an ingenious set ofelectric pumps placed at the back of the tank.As it only requires a few men to…

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