The Columbia, a hand fire engine, could reportedly shoot
streams of water 15 feet into the distance. The Glass Blower, Alfred Seabury, vol XXI, no. 6894. New York: 1889. Collection of the Rakow Research Library, The Corning Museum of Glass, CMGL 112113.

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