 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1844 - 418 pages
...feet being allowed for the height of the engine), still a very trifling leakage will render it useless for the time, at such a depth. The worst mode of supplying...fire engine. If the tank is supplied by mains, from a reservoir, it would be much better to save the expense of the tank, and to place plugs, or fire-cocks,... | |
 | William Laxton - Architecture - 1845 - 564 pages
...leakage will render it useless for the time, at such a depth. Fig. 1.— Opening for Suction pipe. The worst mode of supplying engines with water, is...diminishes the effect of the fire engine. If the tank be supplied by mains, from a reservoir, it would be much better to save the expense of the tank, and... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1844 - 538 pages
...feet being allowed for the height of the engine), still a very trifling leakage will render it useless for the time, at such a depth. The worst mode of supplying engines with water, is by covered A sunk tanks ; they are generally too small, and unless very numerous, confine the engines to one or... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1845 - 472 pages
...feet being allowed for the height of the engine), still a very trifling leakage will render it useless for the time, at such a depth. The worst mode of supplying...hose, which materially diminishes the effect of the fireengine. If the tank is supplied by mains, from a reservoir, it would be much better to save the... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1846 - 528 pages
...feet being allowed for the height of the engine), still a very trifling leakage will render it useless for the time, at such a depth. The worst mode of supplying...fire engine. If the tank is supplied by mains, from a reservoir, it would be much better to save the expense of the tank, and to place plugs or fire-cocks... | |
 | William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - Industrial arts - 1846 - 530 pages
...feet being allowed for the height of the engine), still a very trifling leakage will render it useless for the time, at such a depth. The worst mode of supplying...fire engine. If the tank is supplied by mains, from a reservoir, it would be much better to save the expense of the Jank, and to place plugs or fire-cocks... | |
 | William Newton - 1846 - 528 pages
...feet being allowed for the height of the engine), still a very trifling leakage will render it useless for the time, at such a depth. The worst mode of supplying...length of the hose, which materially diminishes the eifect of the fire engine. If the tank is supplied by mains, from a reservoir, it would be much better... | |
 | 1845 - 472 pages
...the height of the engine), itill a very trifling leakage will render it useless for the time, at Buch a depth. The worst mode of supplying engines with water, is by covered sunk tanks j they are generally too small, and unless very numerous, confine the engines to one or two particular... | |
 | James Braidwood - Fire extinction - 1866 - 222 pages
...feet being allowed for the height of the engine), still a very trifling leakage will render it useless for the time, at such a depth. The worst mode of supplying...hose, which materially diminishes the effect of the fire-engine. If the tank is supplied by mains from a reservoir, it would be much better to save the... | |
 | James Braidwood - Fire extinction - 1866 - 226 pages
...feet being allowed for the height of the engine), still a very trifling leakage will render it useless for the time, at such a depth. The worst mode of supplying...length of the hose, which materially diminishes the efiect of the fire-engine. If the tank is supplied by mains from a reservoir, it would be much better... | |
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... will, if perfectly tight, draw from. a much greater depth than 14 feet (2 feet being allowed for the height of the engine), still a very trifling leakage will render it useless for the time, at such a depth. The worst mode of supplying engines with... 