A practical treatise on outbreaks of fire; being a systematic study of their causes and means of prevention, dealing with the possibilities of danger, precautions necessary, notification, extinction, equipment for saving life and property, organisation of fire brigades, both private and public, notes on structure design of building, legal enactments and fire insurance, historic conflagrations and their lessons. By Sidney Gompertz Gamble. With frontispiece, plates and 348 illustrations in the text. Tables, list of great fires, with dates.

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Gamble, Sidney Gompertz, 1854-

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Publication:

London, C. Griffin and Company, Limited, 1926.

Description:

xii, 543 pages frontispiece, illustrations, portraits, diagrams 23 cm

Notes:
Frontispiece accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.

Subject:

Fires.
Incendies.

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Location: Library main 79588
Call No.: W3567; ID:86-B14980
Status: Available

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