Fire Extinguishers In 200 BC‚ the romans used bucket brigades or bucket chains to put out fire until Ctesibius of Alexandria invented the hand pump to deliver fire to the water. In the Middle Ages ‘squirts’ began to apply jets of water to fires. It wasn’t until after the Great Fire of London that a more modern fire extinguisher was created. The first version of the modern portable fire extinguisher was invented by Captain William Manby in 1819‚ consisting of a copper vessel of three
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Queens’s day incident in Apeldoorn in the year of 2009 Queen’s day also known as Koninginnedag is a national holiday in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This holiday is reserved to celebrate the birthday of the Queen. Though Queen Beatrix was born on 31 January‚ the holiday is observed on 30 April as it was the birthday of her mother and predecessor‚ Juliana. Many of the traditional activities are held outside‚ and observing the holiday in April makes suitable weather more likely. On this national
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thrilling short story “To Build a Fire” demonstrates this conflict with the story of a lone traveler as he makes his way up the Yukon in despicable conditions. His journey through the winter tundra is treacherous and life-threatening‚ but despite the danger he boldly continues his journey until he physically cannot move. London’s masterpiece is an excellent assistant in proving why nature is far more powerful than any single human being could ever be. In “To Build a Fire‚” London uses the setting of the
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“To Build a Fire” Essay Humanity is just a part of nature; if it ceased to exist everything would go on as if it never did exist. Nature’s uncaring for humanity is displayed in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” with the man and nature not doing anything to help him survive. This is shown in “To Build a Fire” when the man fell in the ice‚ tried to start a fire for the second time‚ and when he freezes to death. Nature did not help the man when he fell in the ice‚ it simply did not freeze the water
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Fire Safety On a cold summers night the fire department received a two-alarm house fire. When the first-in engine arrived on the scene they reported heavy smoke and flames visible from the exterior. Others units then arrived on the scene to help battle the blaze that destroyed the two-story house. Thankfully‚ no one was injured. Fire investigators determined the cause of the blaze was a candle that has been left burning unattended while the homeowners left the house. Accidents like this are
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It was a cold friday afternoon as I sat at the bus stop waiting to get home. I had just got out of an intense Friday lecture from the Northampton local Mosque. The Imam was furious and obviously disgusted at the behavior of our generation. "How do we live with ourselves" Imam Aseem Ibrahim had said. "Most of us have enough to feed ourselves and our family‚ even buy the latest gadgets just because we can but do we feed the poor? Do we clothed them?" He said in anger as he chocked on the words. The
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Hostel life is not without its disadvantages. The rich students get sufficient money from their parents and therefore spend lavishly. The poor boarders also urge their parents to increase their monthly allowance and spend their hard earned money on luxuries. The company of the rich also makes them pick up their bad habits. They start smoking. Some of them take to intoxicants and thereby ruin themselves. Another great defect in hostel life is the mismanagement on the part of the warden. The food
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“To Build a Fire” and its Imagery One of the tools many authors use in writing is imagery. Imagery is a concrete representation of a sense impression‚ a feeling‚ or an idea which appeals to one or more of our senses. There are five types of imagery implemented in literature which appeal to each of our five senses: touch‚ hearing‚ smell‚ sight‚ and taste. They are termed tactile imagery‚ aural imagery‚ olfactory imagery‚ visual imagery‚ and gustatory imagery. In Jack London’s short story “To
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Chemistry of Fire and Firefighting Firefighting in the early 1700’s differed from the ways that we fight fires today. In the past‚ man-kind didn’t know the chemistry of fire and the different kinds of fire that ignite. Technology has improved a lot from the 1700’s. When technology improved‚ so did the techniques of fighting fires. Firefighters have learned that fires can start from something as simple as a frayed wire and can start from something as complex as a lightning bolt. Technology
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