Letter respecting a torpedo invented for the purpose of fighting fires

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Title

Letter respecting a torpedo invented for the purpose of fighting fires

Subject

Boston Fire Department

Description

Letter to the mayor and Committee on the Fire Department describing and promoting a torpedo invented for the purpose of destroying buildings in order to halt the spread of fire

Creator

Roosevelt, Clinton

Source

0100.001 City Council Proceedings, City of Boston Archives

Date

18 August 1837

Rights

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Format

paper

Language

english

Type

text

Identifier

1837-0081-G1

Text

Partial transcription from first page of docket:

In Board of Aldermen Sept 4, 1837

The Committee on the Fire Dept to whom was referred the communications of Clinton Roosevelt regarding a torpedo invented by him for destroying buildings in case of extensive conflatoration ask leave to report, that it is impossible to determine without inspection , the value of the invention & as applicant has sent neither model nor drawing of the invention, they are unable to judge [illegible] of the probability in respect to it. They therefore ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject.

For the committee, Samuel A. Eliot