250 0« the hvusnlion of Fire Engines. 



into it no water. It is here feeii that the ufe of Giil-doth 

 hofe is not fo modem an invention as fome have fuppoied. 

 That our apparatus for conveying water to the fire engine is 

 much more ingenious and convenient niuft be allowed ; but 

 1 would Itronglv recommend that in all cities there (liould 

 be pumps or running wells of water, to the fpout of which 

 the one end of hofe might be fixed, while the other is 

 fcrewcdupon the engine. The Van dev Heide reckoned it an 

 advantage in their invention, thst this apparatus rendered it 

 unneceflarv to have leathern buckets, which are expenfive; or 

 at Icalt leflened their number, as well as that of the workmen. 



From tills information, . t lie truih of which cannot be 

 doubted, v/e may readily believe that engines with hofe were 

 not invented in the year 1697 by Gottfried Fuchs, fire di- 

 rector at Copenhagen, as was however publicly aflertcd in 

 3717 ; with this addition, that the invention was loon after 

 employed in Holland and at Hamburgh *. Fuchs feems 

 only to have introduced into Denmark the invention of the 

 above Dutchmen at ihe time of the great fire on the 19th of 

 April 1689, ■^^1^^" the opera houfe at Auialienburg, with 

 uiore than 130 perfons, as well as the beautiful palace nf 

 AmalicnburiT, were deltroyed. We are. at leaft told in hii- 

 toryt, that this event gave rife to an in^provcment in the ap- 

 paratus for extinguifliing fires, and to a new cxrdinance 0/ 

 the 23d of .July of that year rel'pc<!:l:ing fires, as well as to the 

 introduction of fire engines v\ ith bole ; which however had 

 been employed at Amtterdani more than a dozen of years 

 before. 



Hofe or pipes of this kind for conveying water were not, 

 however, imknown to the antitnts. The architcif Apollo- 

 dorus, at lealt, favs, in the paflage already quoted, that to 

 convey water to elevated places expofcd to fiery darts, infiead 

 of pipes, the bowels of an ox might be employed, having at 

 the one end a bag filled with water, udiich being comprefled, 

 the water will be forced through the intcflines to the place of 

 its deft i nation %. Thefe were conveyers of the fimplefl con- 

 ltru6lion. 



Among 



• Breflauer Samlung ivr?. i verfuch, p. 108. Pafchii Inventa nov.- 

 antiqua, p. 668. W. G. Hclle Abhandi. zu Verbeirerung der Feucr- 

 fprLitzen. Gotha 177S. 8vo. p. 7. 



+ Ali;emeine V/cltliKiorie, th. 3^. p. 631. 



+ foiiorcei, p. 32. Kara o; to WfOXEif*£va toic WypeJoXoi; /uEpu, ain erx'^vmi, 



xai rrMtifum mcu)fi(i,vci. in |.Hitii)us auttm qua: txp^litae iunt telis inctn- 

 dbriis., pro tuhis, bourn jjitcftiiia habere oportct, qi.i«e aijuani in (ublime 



dtferant. 



