Word: sprinklers
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...glamorous, but it is the city government which steps most noticeably on people's toes. It is the city that a man curses when he finds a parking ticket on his car, when his car is stolen, when he gets dust in his eye, when the street sprinkler squirts his new suit, when his son comes from the public school with a bloody nose, when his son cannot go to school because of a measles epidemic...
Some few added that the arsenal at Dover was overstocked by anywhere from 800% to 300%, that the roofs of the storage warehouses were wooden, that no sprinkler systems were used inside the buildings, that the high explosives had been jammed together in buildings much too close together. Nothing definite was said concerning the contention of Professor Michael Pupin of Columbia University, who stated that the lightning could have been held under control by the use of copper roofings connected by heavy copper strappings directly to the ground; or the belief of Inventor Hudson Maxim that subsurface magazines are essential...