Showing posts with label respirator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label respirator. Show all posts

Saturday, July 28, 2012

The Smoke Respirator (1873)

The smoke respirator "is one of the latest novelties for the use of firemen is employed by the fire department of London It a man to penetrate rooms and vaults when thick and deleterious gases render it impossible for any to venture with or without the extincteur."
Alfred Ely Beach, ed. The Science Record for 1873.  (New York: Munn and Company. 1873).

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Rescue Breathing Apparatus (1920)

Oxygen Rescue Breathing Apparatus, New York Navy Yard Type
Breathing Apparatus: Rescue and Protective. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920).