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H. Mueller, Gun Shop building, circa 1859. Mueller Co. was founded in 1857 by Hieronymus Mueller in Decatur, Illinois as "H. Mueller, Gun Shop". [3] Mueller closed the business briefly in 1858 to prospect for gold in Colorado, but returned to his business not long after, expanding it to include sewing machine and clock repairs and the sale of hunting and fishing equipment in addition to ...
August 16, 1994 (105 E. Main St. and 1st Ave. St. Charles: 2: Aurora Broadway Historic District: Aurora Broadway Historic District: February 7, 2023 (Roughly bounded by the Fox R., East New York St., the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railroad tracks, and East Benton St.
The Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal (OSFM) is the Illinois state government office that oversees local firefighting activities within Illinois. Local Illinois fire departments are autonomous, and the OSFM provides backup services to these local forces and coordinates their activities.
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The museum now located in the old Central Fire Station of Aurora, which was built in 1894. It has bay windows, a decorative cornice, an "onion-dome" and was asserted to be 'a model of its kind' when it was completed. It was used as a fire station until 1980. The museum moved into the old Central Fire Station, where it remains to this day, in 1990.
By 1938 large numbers of the Coventry trailer pumps were being purchased by fire brigades, and demonstrated to ARP staff and members of the Auxiliary Fire Service. The "Coventry Climax trailer pump" was described as being capable of delivering 250–300 imperial gallons per minute (1,100–1,400 L/min).
The fire pump was reinvented in Europe during the 16th century, reportedly used in Augsburg in 1518 and Nuremberg in 1657. A book of 1655 inventions mentions a steam engine (called a fire engine) pump used to "raise a column of water 40 feet [12.2 m]", but there was no mention of whether it was portable.