The origin of
The world's first fire extinguisher was born in London in 1834. One of the many fire-watchers who didn't just sit around and watch the fire was George William mumby. Born in Norfolk, manby served as a young soldier, officer to captain, and commander of the Yarmouth barracks, a position that gave him time to devote himself to the cause of saving human lives that strongly appealed to him. Early on, he was a keen shipwreck reliever. He invented the trouser buoy and was the first to propose the use of lighthouse flashes to identify signals. Later, manby turned his talents from ocean rescue to fire rescue. He was experimenting with fireproof clothing when the fire broke out. His most original contribution was the invention of the portable compressed gas fire extinguisher, a two-foot-long, eight-inch diameter, four-gallon, four-liter copper cylinder that was essentially the same as today's fire extinguishers. He keeps his fire extinguishers in his specially designed wheelbarrows, and he wants patrols equipped with them to put out small fires as soon as they start, reducing the number of major ones.