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Firemen's pole
A firemen's pole or sliding pole is a wooden pole or a metal tube or pipe installed between floors in fire stations, which was invented in the 1870s by Chicago, Illinois resident David Kenyon, although it is often incorrectly credited to the Boston Fire Department.
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