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Plate 1: Old en New Fire-Engines; fire-fighting scene on a quay, with an old fire-engine demonstrated at left, a new one at right, cross-section of a staircase in right background with a fireman using a hose from the new design; lettered A-P within composition indicating different fire-engines and their parts; after a preparatory drawing by Jan van der Heyden; illustration to Jan van der Heyden's "Beschryving der nieuwlijks uitgevonden en geoctrojeerde Slang-Brand-Spuiten" (Amsterdam: 1690). c.1690 Etching and engraving
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