Editing Fire hydrant (section)

==Further reading==
*{{US patent|909}} — Issued to John Jorden on September 8, 1838, for "...a new and useful improvement in Fire-Plugs and Hydrants...". This is an early wooden bodied hydrant, the earliest hydrant patent extant; the [[patent office]] itself burned to the ground in 1836, taking with it all prior hydrant patents.
*{{US patent|37466}} — Issued to Richard Stileman on January 20, 1863. An early iron hydrant, believed the first patented hydrant with the larger size '''steamer port''' to supply steam fire engines. Manufactured and marketed as the Stileman hydrant. See also [http://www.firehydrant.org/pictures/stileman.html Stileman page at FireHydrant.org].
*{{US patent|80143}} — Issued to Zebulon Erastus Coffin on July 21, 1868. This is a cast iron hydrant very similar to modern fire hydrants, it was produced by Boston Machine Co. See also [http://www.firehydrant.org/pictures/boston-machine.html Boston Machine page at FireHydrant.org].
*{{US patent|94749}} — Issued to Birdsill Holly on September 14, 1869. See also [http://www.firehydrant.org/pictures/holly.html Holly page at FireHydrant.org].
*Wohleber, Curt. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100428162059/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2002/3/2002_3_10.shtml "The Fire Hydrant"]. In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20051230102554/http://inventionandtechnology.com/ The American Heritage of Invention & Technology]''. Winter 2002. Provides a history with dates of fire hydrant development. (Archived from [https://web.archive.org/web/20100428162059/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2002/3/2002_3_10.shtml the original] on April 28, 2010)