Question

What firefighting equipment did the ancient Egyptians invent?

Answer 1

the earliest fire apparatus was a water pump invented in Alexandria, Egypt around the 2nd Century BCE. The technology was lost, only to be reinvented in the 16th Century. Then, mobile pumps were moved first by men and later by horses. The first self-propelled engines, developed in the mid-1800s, were steam powered.

Answer 2

Answer: First attempts at firefighting can be traced as far back as the 2nd century. It was then that an Egyptian from Alexandria named Ctesibus built a basic hand pump that could squirt a jet of water, but the idea was lost until the fire pump was reinvented about AD 1500.

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