:f The New -York' Fire ;Dep.artmept has ■ado j&«d a^new life-saving " iie't;. consisting" of a gas-pipe circular . frame which opens and shuts" like an old-fashioned purse": , A canvas net, lined wifh wadding two inches ■thick, is attaohed to the frame by springs, which, deaden the shock of a person jumping into it. In a recent trial, a fireman jumped into it from a height of four storeys, and the shock was trifling.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7071, 12 April 1901, Page 1
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