Of late years the attention of inventors has been di-rf S,ed to the application of steam to the suction and forcing of water in fire engines ; and many powerful fire engines worked exclusively by ...

is greatly exercised because Engine Companies Nos. 38 and 29 have seen fit to petition, and the Common Council to grant their request, for steam fire-engines like the "Manhattan." The fact that ...

Bean, the venerable manufacturer of Manchester, N.H., is coupled in most of the press notices with a statement that he constructed the first steam fire engine. Probably no man had been more ...

The Nott steam pumper fire engine, officially named the La Crosse, was purchased in 1905 for use at Station No. 1 at 414 State St. It cost the substantial sum of $5,000. The La Crosse was pulled ...

NORWICH — The antique, horse-drawn steam engine inside the Yantic Fire Engine Co.'s headquarters bay can't match its modern counterparts when it comes to mobility or pure gallon-pumping power, but it ...