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on the rear axle for movement, navigation, and steering. It could throw a jet of water of 290 tons per hour (about 20 US gallons (76 L) per second) 166 ft 0 in (50.60 m) high. The horizontal cylinders lined up with the pump cylinders and worked with a pair of driving wheels. At
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that was not self-propelled. This was the only fire engine built by Hodge. No progress was made in that direction by anyone in the following decade. In 1847 Hodge moved back to
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machinery that turned vegetable pulp into paper material. In 1861, he patented a hydraulic press for pressing of hay, straw, hops, hemp, flax, cotton, and animal wool for making vegetable and animal oils. He made a hop separator for
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were required to draw it on level ground. It was placed in service by the fire company known as Pearl Hose No. 28, but was abandoned because it was too heavy and because sparks poured from its stacks.
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the front axle, ahead of the smoke-box, was an air vessel that activated a bell. In 1896 the fire engine was reported to have weighed around seven or eight
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The Steam Engine – including a description of a locomotive engine that he made for Rogers
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