Observations upon Fire, with a view to the best and most expeditious methods of extinguishing it, upon a new plan, with or without water.

YOUNG (David)

Verlag: Edinburgh: Printed for the Author and Sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1784

Beschreibung

First edition, 8vo (211 x 133 mm), [4], 48pp., stitched as issued, orig. blue paper wrappers, lower wrapper lightly stained. The author offers a practical guidance on fire management and fire extinction. Some of his ideas are simple and pretty mundane - wet cloths, wet straw, earth and so forth. Others are more controversial such as the use of gunpowder balls to blow the fire out by violent explosions.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 39950

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Observations upon Fire, with a view to the best and most expeditious methods of extinguishing it, upon a new plan, with or without water.
• Verlag: Edinburgh: Printed for the Author and Sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1784
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
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