Fire engine with hose
Bomba de incendios de pistón y manguera
- Date
- 1518 (Platner) / 1672 (Van der Heyden) / 1721 (Newsham) · confidence high
- Place
- Augsburg (Platner); Amsterdam (Van der Heyden); London (Newsham)
- Credited to
- Anton Platner (1518), Hans Hautsch (Nuremberg, 1655), Jan van der Heyden (sewn leather hose, 1672), Richard Newsham (double-cylinder pump, 1721)
- People
- 👤 Jan Van Der Heyden👤 Richard Newsham?–1743
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A piston pump on a cart, with an air chamber producing a continuous jet, to which Van der Heyden added the leather hose and suction pipe, allowing firefighters to attack a fire from inside buildings. It professionalised urban firefighting.
Van der Heyden published an illustrated treatise on his system in 1690, one of the first technical manuals with engravings.
What it led to
- Municipal fire brigades (Amsterdam, 1685)
- Fire insurance after the Great Fire of London (1666)
- The serial manufacture of pumps and hoses
Built on
- Force pump and fire engine (Ctesibius)c. 270 BCE
- Double-acting piston bellowsc. 200 BCE
- Vacuum pump (air pump)1650
- Ctesibius's pump
- Force pump siphon
Made possible
- Hydraulic press1795
- Steam fire engine (1829)
- Canvas and rubber hose
- Fire hydrant