Automatic Fire-Fighting "Bomb" Thrown Like a Grenade
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Hurled like a hand grenade into the flames, a glass “bomb” bursts and drenches the fire with liquid that becomes a smothering gas, harmless to rugs, fabrics and papers but a powerful agent against flames. Besides its usefulness as a hand-extinguisher, it has an automatic feature that makes it a “robot” watchman. In its non-rusting metal handle is a coil spring held by a fuse; when heat melts the fuse, the spring throws a projectile against the glass, breaking it and releasing the fluid,
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Automatic Fire-Fighting "Bomb" Thrown Like a Grenade
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Automatic Fire-Fighting "Bomb" Thrown Like a Grenade
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1940-06
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
-
Popular Mechanics, v. 73, n. 6, 1940
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 843
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
