The Museum of Bags and Purses (Dutch: Tassenmuseum Hendrikje), in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a museum dedicated to historical handbags, purses and suitcases. The collection contains 4,000 objects from the 16th Century. One of only three specialized museums around the world in the field, and the collection is the largest in the world. While the majority of visitors to the museum are women, shoeing the most valuable piece in the exhibition men sixteenth century goat-skin belt pouch with iron.
About 30 years ago, an antiques dealer Ivo wallet from Amstelveen, a small ancient turtle bag loaded with mother bought in England, from the year 1820 and produced in Germany. Purses interest in exploring the history of the first bag sparked a passion for collecting handbags. Not too long they had collected over 3,000 bags. resolved quickly, some of the collection to the public has become. At first the museum two rooms of a house in Amstelveen, but as the collection grew, the couple is looking for a new location. Since June 2007 the museum in a mansion built in the 17th Century on the Herengracht in Amsterdam’s most prestigious accommodated. Today, the Museum of Bags and budgets is a serious institution with a permanent exhibition at the core of the collection and temporary exhibitions of exceptional designers, mostly Dutch.
The earliest handbags in the museum’s collection are usually small, used for coins, keys, and sewing kits to carry. These bags were made by both men and women under their clothes to avoid the attention of thieves. The development of trousers with pockets for men, and the change in the wave matching skirts dresses, handbags always performed on items for women, often with elaborate decoration. With the advent of the industrial revolution in the 18th Century, the technology and the growth of rail traffic on the Internet on the middle class led to bigger bags, often made of durable leather. Brand name bags in the foreground in the 1950s, embodied by objects in the collection, including a quilted Chanel handbag, Yves Saint Laurent women`s handbags and Hermès Kelly Bag.
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Fire Extinguisher
A fire extinguisher is a portable small fire extinguisher with a gross weight of 20 kg. He is the quenching of small and incipient fires, containing by extinguishing the stored or expelled during the commissioning generated pressure.
On 10 February 1863 Aanson Crane was in the
United States patent number 37 610 for the fire extinguisher invented by him.
The “International Fire-Gesellschaft mbH” presented in 1912 in Berlin the first “quick-dry fire extinguisher.” This, by the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin, patented process, revolutionized fire fighting and as a precursor of all modern portable fire extinguisher can be considered. Also, the comet method for producing foam, patented in 1932 by Clemens Wagner, was developed by Total. The Gloria was founded in 1945 in Gütersloh, and has since 1952, the company is based in Wadersloh.
The data used in extinguishing a fire extinguisher, due to their extinguishing effect of certain types of fires likely are divided into fire classes. The fire classes for which a fire extinguisher is suitable for, marked on each extinguisher and illustrated with pictograms and abbreviated by the letters A, B, C, D and F. The suitability of a fire extinguisher for certain classes, often derived from the colloquial 
name, such as an ABC extinguisher for Class A, B and C is suitable.
The probes are graded as follows:
Brand Class A: 3A, 5A, 8A, 13A, 21A, 27A, 34A, 43A, 55A
Brand Class B: 8B, 13B, 21B, 34B, 55B, 70B, 89B, 113B, 144B, 183B, 233B
For the other classes, there is no fire separation of the quenching property.
Brand Class C: These concern only whether quenched from fire extinguishers burning gas, which emerges at the end of a tube.