Jan van der Heyden
Jan van der Heyden :
Improved the design of the fire engine in 1672. jan van der Heyden (March 5, 1637, Gorinchem - September 12, 1712, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, draughtsman, printmaker, aMennonite and inventor who significantly contributed to contemporary firefighting. He improved the fire hose in 1672, with his brother Nicolaes, who was a hydraulic engineer. He modified the manual fire engines, reorganised the volunteer fire brigade (1685) and wrote and illustrated the first firefighting manual (Brandspuiten-boek). A comprehensive street lighting scheme for Amsterdam, which lasted from 1669 until 1840, designed and implemented by Van der Heyden, was adopted as a model by many other towns and abroad
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