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In Europe, firefighting was quite rudimentary until the 17th century.In 1254, a royal decree of King Saint Louis of France created the so-called guet bourgeois ("burgess watch"), allowing the residents of Paris to establish their own night watches, separate from the king's night watches, to prevent and stop crimes and fires.
The ordinary firefighters were called milites (soldiers). The Vigiles were organized into seven cohorts each 1,000 men strong. The cohorts contained seven centuries. The centuries were commanded by centurions, and the cohort was commanded by a tribune. The commander of the Vigiles was the Praefectus Vigilum.
The history of watches began in 16th-century Europe, where watches evolved from portable spring-driven clocks, which first appeared in the 15th century. The watch was developed by inventors and engineers from the 16th century to the mid-20th century as a mechanical device, powered by winding a mainspring which turned gears and then moved the ...
The factory floor of Globe Manufacturing may seem like your average textile manufacturing space -- from its daylight yellow walls, to the Technicolor knickknacks dotting individual workstations.
The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., was a company that produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time delay fuses, and other precision instruments in the United States of America between 1850 and 1957.
Firefighters watch as flames from the Palisades Fire burn a home in Los Angeles on Jan. 8. ... Fifteen of the 20 most destructive fires in the state’s recorded history occurred in the past decade.
Joe Baal was 8 years old when he went to his first New York Yankees game in 1948. On Tuesday night, 76 years after that game, Baal attended his first World Series game with his daughter to watch ...
The watch was an 18-size, full plate design. In 1869, the National Watch Company won "Best Watches, Illinois Manufacture" at the 17th Annual Illinois State Fair, for which it won a silver medal. [3] The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.