A Respiratory Apparatus
The picture represents an ingenious and it should be very useful breathing appliance for the use of firemen and others who have to enter rooms and confined spaces generally which are tilled wiith smoke or other poisonous fumes. The illustration shows how the appliance looks in front and how it is worked behind, where two cylinders charged with an hour's supply of air feed the face part and collect the exhalations. The
Front and hack part of the apparatus, the latter hangiing down l'rom the shoulders to the waist. Scientific American says that the niachiiie is tin undoubted success as it has been tested pretty freely under all sorts of t ryinft conditions with decided benefit to the user. In one case so equipped, u man entered a chamber full of burning sulphur, worked in lit for an hour awl cfcmc out quite unharmed as a result ol the ordeal.
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Southland Times, Issue 19773, 24 March 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)
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153A Respiratory Apparatus Southland Times, Issue 19773, 24 March 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)
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