Firefighter Suit Draws Breathable Air from the Floor
Initially released in July 1857
“In apartments loaded with smoke to an extent that would render it difficult to breathe at the height of a person’s head previously mentioned the flooring, there is in practically each individual occasion a draft of awesome, pure air near the flooring. To take benefit of this circumstance a restricted-fitting mask has been adapted, from which count air tubes, by which a particular person breathes the extremities of the tubes achieve to in an inch or two of the flooring.”
—Scientific American, July 1857
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