The history of fire engines
Recalling the history, the world's earliest fire forces originated in the Northern Song Dynasty, indicating that more than one thousand years ago, although there were no fire engines, but our residents have the prevention and awareness of fire. The Northern Song Dynasty fire force than in 1666 London Fire Brigade as early as 600 years, more than 1853 New York full-time fire brigade as early as 800 years.Learning to use fire is a crucial step in the history of human evolution. With the use of fire more and more widely, fire has become a major problem that people must face and overcome.
Since the beginning of the last century, the fire automobile has been continuously developed and perfected, and it has quickly become the main force in the fire protection work, and it has completely changed the face of human struggle against fire.Five hundred years ago, there was a horse drawn fire engineFire engines, as the name suggests, is the formation of a variety of fire fighting equipment installed in the car. The fire engines we refer to today usually refer to this kind of fire engine. Before the generation of engines powered by internal combustion engines, people began to try to install special firefighting equipment on vehicles so that they could be rushed to the scene in time of fire.One of the world's first fire engines was commissioned in 1518 by the German city of Augsburg, which was made by Anteneh Blater, a craftsman of metalwork. Little is known about the details of the fire engine. According to the book "history of Augsburg's technology", the fire engine was built on a large water pump operated by a lever. Its power is to draw with horses.
