“Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park ⟳ bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!””

“A fire aboard TfW 175007, working a Holyhead-Cardiff Central service on February 8, closed the A483 road while five fire engines from Wrexham, Deeside, and Cheshire attended the scene.”

“A plan ⟳ somewhat similar to this was adopted by Smeaton in the boiler of his portable fire engine.”

“In the same year a very compact arrangement for a stationary fire engine was described by Mr. Wm. Baddeley, in which he proposed it should be worked like ⟳ a capstan by means of handspikes, and it could be bolted down to a ship's deck, or fastened wherever wanted.”

“This discovery gave a great impulse to mechanical ingenuity, and many schemes were contrived to make ⟳ this new agent available as a motive power; but the first of these projects that appears to have ⟳ been of any avail was the fire engine of Captain Tomas Savery, who produced a vacuum by condensing steam in close ⟳ vessels, and then applied the vacuum so obtained to the elevation of water.”

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