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<blockquote data-quote="konechiwa" data-source="post: 3639322" data-attributes="member: 568044"><p>However, he also invented a fire extinguisher. It worked by suffocating the fire and therefore putting it out, an idea credited to a Zachary Greyl. A miniature wooden barrel was filled with fire-extinguishing material. Then gunpowder was inserted in a pewter sphere at the centre of the centre of the barrel, and fitted with a fuse, pipe and guides to the top. When the fuse was fired, the explosion forced the fire upwards. It was first tested on Hampstead Heath in 1723. A report about a spate of fires in London in 1727 said:</p><p></p><p>"I hear that the famous machines or Fire Watches, invented by Mr Godfrey the great Chymist.displayed their wonderful effects, and prevented the progress of that furious element [the fire]."</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.rpsgb.org.uk/informationresources/museum/exhibitions/themotherofinvention/godf.html" target="_blank">http://www.rpsgb.org.uk/informationresources/museum/exhibitions/themotherofinvention/godf.html</a></p><p></p><p>The first automatic fire extinguisher of which there is any record was patented in England in 1723 by Ambrose Godfrey, a celebrated chemist. It consisted of a cask of fire-extinguishing liquid containing a pewter chamber of gunpowder. This was connected with a system of fuses which were ignited, exploding the gunpowder and scattering the solution. This device was probably used to a limited extent, as Bradley's Weekly Messenger for November 7, 1729, refers to its efficiency in stopping a fire in London.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguisher" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguisher</a></p><p></p><p>not to mention the fact that the white house is not a "modern home".</p><p></p><p>I'll condede that a fire in the early 1800's would bring the white house down, but again, if you read my earlier post it would be rebuilt.</p><p></p><p>Not to mention the president and other vital members to our government would have almost been surely evacuated.</p><p></p><p><strong>But yet again, you cannot evacuate someone when a nuclear bomb is detonated right outside. Which is, yet again, why ordinary people should not be allowed to have them.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="konechiwa, post: 3639322, member: 568044"] However, he also invented a fire extinguisher. It worked by suffocating the fire and therefore putting it out, an idea credited to a Zachary Greyl. A miniature wooden barrel was filled with fire-extinguishing material. Then gunpowder was inserted in a pewter sphere at the centre of the centre of the barrel, and fitted with a fuse, pipe and guides to the top. When the fuse was fired, the explosion forced the fire upwards. It was first tested on Hampstead Heath in 1723. A report about a spate of fires in London in 1727 said: "I hear that the famous machines or Fire Watches, invented by Mr Godfrey the great Chymist.displayed their wonderful effects, and prevented the progress of that furious element [the fire]." [URL="http://www.rpsgb.org.uk/informationresources/museum/exhibitions/themotherofinvention/godf.html"]http://www.rpsgb.org.uk/informationresources/museum/exhibitions/themotherofinvention/godf.html[/URL] The first automatic fire extinguisher of which there is any record was patented in England in 1723 by Ambrose Godfrey, a celebrated chemist. It consisted of a cask of fire-extinguishing liquid containing a pewter chamber of gunpowder. This was connected with a system of fuses which were ignited, exploding the gunpowder and scattering the solution. This device was probably used to a limited extent, as Bradley's Weekly Messenger for November 7, 1729, refers to its efficiency in stopping a fire in London. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguisher"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguisher[/URL] not to mention the fact that the white house is not a "modern home". I'll condede that a fire in the early 1800's would bring the white house down, but again, if you read my earlier post it would be rebuilt. Not to mention the president and other vital members to our government would have almost been surely evacuated. [B]But yet again, you cannot evacuate someone when a nuclear bomb is detonated right outside. Which is, yet again, why ordinary people should not be allowed to have them.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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