 | William Laxton - Architecture - 1845 - 564 pages
...steam engines, to keep up the supply through the mains, the quantity of water kept in readiness maybe reduced to two hours' consumption, as it is likely...supposed to be required in case of serious fires in dockyard?, in large stacks of warehouses, or in large manufactories. Where water can be had at nearly... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1845 - 472 pages
...kept in readiness may be reduced to two hours' consumption, as it is likely that the steam-engines would be at work before that quantity was exhausted....water may be conducted under the surface by large cast-iron pipes, with openings at such distances as may seem advisable for introducing the suction... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1846 - 528 pages
...required at a large fire. If however there are steam engines, to keep up the supply through the mains, the quantity of water kept in readiness, may be reduced...water may be conducted under the surface by large cast-iron pipes, with openings at such distances as may seem advisable for introducing the suction... | |
 | William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - Industrial arts - 1846 - 530 pages
...required at a large fire. If however there are steam engines, to keep up the supply through the mains, the quantity of water kept in readiness, may be reduced...water may be conducted under the surface by large cast-iron pipes, with openings at such distances as may seem advisable for introducing the suction... | |
 | William Newton - 1846 - 528 pages
...required at a large fire. If howerer there are steam engines, to keep up the supply through the mains, the quantity of water kept in readiness, may be reduced...water may be conducted under the surface by large cast-iron pipes, with openings at such distances as may seem advisable for introducing the suction... | |
 | 1845 - 472 pages
...kept in readiness may be reduced to two hours' consumption, as it is likely that the steam-engines would be at work before that quantity was exhausted....large stacks of warehouses, or in large manufactories. fret below the surface of the ground, n« although a fire-engine will, if perfrrrly tight, draw from... | |
 | James Braidwood - Fire extinction - 1866 - 222 pages
...kept in readiness may be reduced to two hours' consumption, as it is likely that the steam-engines would be at work before that quantity was exhausted. This is what may be supposed to be required, in cases of serious fires in dockyards, in large stacks of warehouses, or in large manufactories. Where... | |
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... consumption, as it is likely that the steam engines would be at work before that quantity was exhausted. This is what may be supposed to be required, in case of serious fires in dock-yards, in large stacks of warehouses, or in large manufactories.... 