Fire Extinguishers Gallery

Fire extinguishers were a type of bottle designed to be filled with carbon tetrachloride—a fire retardant and thrown into fires to extinguish them. There were the early “fire extinguishers” as we know them today. These type bottles were fairly common from about 1880 to well into the 1900s when vaporized chemical fire extinguishers were invented and found much more useful and efficient.

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