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He was credited for improving the fire extinguisher in 1872, about 150 years after it had been invented in England.

What he actually invented was a type of fire standpipe and sprinkler in which water pressure from a reservoir and pump pushes water up and into a building to a valve that can be opened to make the water spray out of nozzles. That is nothing like what we call a "portable fire extinguisher" today.

US Patent 125,063, issued March 26, 1872 to Thomas J. Martin [sic], of Dowagiac, Cass County, Michigan.

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