C incinnati’s wonderful Fire Museum on Court Street continually burnishes our city’s two fire-fighting claims to fame: Cincinnati created the first professional fire department in the United States in ...

THE FIRST STEAM FIRE ENGINE. Share full article. Feb. 28, 1884. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 28, 1884, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

Years ago, the world's first steam engines paved the way for the technological advancements that we see today. Let's take a look at how they worked.

The first self-propelled, steam-powered fire engine came to be in the U.S. in 1841, and it was built in New York. ... Despite the fact that steam-powered fire engines were still in use, ...

The engine is one of only two 1884 Ahrens steamers left, per the museum. Back then, the Dallas Fire Department used horses to pull the engine to fires, a hefty task given the steamer weighs 5,700 ...

The house at 254 Latta Ave. was built in 1900 by George Taylor Latta and designed by his father, Alexander Bonner Latta, who is credited with inventing the first functional steam-powered fire engine.

The Amoskeag Machine Shop in Boston has just completed a first-class steam fire-engine for the Russian Government. It was ordered through Col. ROMANOFF, of the Imperial Board of Engineers, and is ...