In Popular Culture
In the 1921 novel of the popular "Tom Swift" series, "Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters", the hero escapes on a naphtha launch, describing it as "old-fashioned". The author also passes comment as to them being "a trifle treacherous" to light.
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