Of late years the attention of inventors has been di-rf S,ed to the application of steam to the suction and forcing of water in fire engines ... of a lever under the control of the driver.

Nonetheless, with huge wheels and a gay canopy with a red fringe on top, the Huber "steam traction engine" is a splendid relic of expansionist 19th- and early 20th-century America. It was steam ...