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  <dc:title>Paper, 'The new invention for extinguishing fires' by unknown author</dc:title>
  <dc:description>The author describes an experiment he witnessed in the Invalides in Paris [France] in which a wooden structure was set on fire to test a new invention for extinguishing fires. The author was unable to see the invention or how it was employed, but reports that a loud sound like a gunshot was heard, and the flames were suddenly extinguished. The same experiment was repeated in an underground cellar, with the same success.

Subject: Engineering

Read to the Royal Society on 10 January 1723</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1722]</dc:date>
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