Extintor.

Mono Monday theme this week is 18th century inventions. This item is obviously not from that era, but a modern-day incarnation.

The first fire extinguisher on record was patented in England in 1723 by Ambrose Godfrey, a celebrated chemist. It consisted of a cask of fire-extinguishing liquid containing a pewter chamber of gunpowder. This was connected with a system of fuses which were ignited, exploding the gunpowder and scattering the solution. After this version of the extinguisher, many others were created, but it wasn’t until the 1800’s that a modern version of the extinguisher emerged.