Eddie Baker: Fire Engines | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781784423001 | Fire Engines | Eddie Baker | Taschenbuch | Shire Library | Englisch

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More complex and imposing than any other vehicle in the British emergency services, the fire engine has a long and interesting history. The earliest water pumps had been developed by the eighteenth century - basic manual pumps that had to be hauled around by people or horses, and were often only used on fire-insured premises. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries horse-drawn, steam-powered fire engines, and eventually motorised fire engines, came to revolutionise firefighting, offering far greater versatility and the brigades came to be run by the municipalities. In this beautifully illustrated introduction, Eddie Baker charts the history of fire engines and their variants, and the increasingly complex equipment they have carried, such as high-rise ladders and high-pressure hoses. He also explains the wider history of the fire service and how the engines have been shaped by its needs and, most importantly, those of the firefighters themselves.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Shire Library
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781784423001
ISBN-10:	1784423009
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Baker, Eddie
Hersteller:	SHIRE PUBN Shire Library
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße:	208 x 146 x 7 mm
Von/Mit:	Eddie Baker
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.08.2018
Gewicht:	0,136 kg