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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer 26 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 14 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 6 0 Browse Search
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, about 150 B. C., and the description might stand for the ordinary form of hand-engine used at the present day. The drawing is made from the description. The engine had two single-acting pumps worked by one beam by means of brakes. The streams united in a common discharge-pipe passing up a trunk in which was an air-chamber and out at a nozzle which was capable of being presented in any direction. The fire-brigade of Imperial Rome was a company of six hundred freedmen, organized by Augustus Caesar, A. U. C. 732. A fire-preventive committee, consisting of seven freedmen and a president of the equestrian order, was organized fifteen years afterwards, say B. C. 7. Augustus gave the form stated to a preexisting organization. We do not find in any Roman writer a description of a machine so perfect as that of Hero. The sipho of the Romans is referred to by Pliny in a letter to Trajan: he states that the people of Nicomedia were too lazy to put out a fire in that city, and that th