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- catalog abstract ""The Fireproof Building traces the development of structural fire protection in America and its important consequences for building construction as well as for the safety of cities. Urban conflagrations destroyed many downtowns in the nineteenth century. To protect their property, some owners made their buildings fire-resistive - or as they were called in the past, fireproof - by using new kinds of noncombustible materials and arranging the space inside to check the spread of fire. As these methods improved and owners replaced combustible buildings with fireproof ones, urban firestorms became a thing of the past."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12240083.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""The Fireproof Building traces the development of structural fire protection in America and its important consequences for building construction as well as for the safety of cities. Urban conflagrations destroyed many downtowns in the nineteenth century. To protect their property, some owners made their buildings fire-resistive - or as they were called in the past, fireproof - by using new kinds of noncombustible materials and arranging the space inside to check the spread of fire. As these methods improved and owners replaced combustible buildings with fireproof ones, urban firestorms became a thing of the past."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Solving the Problem of Urban Conflagration -- 1. The Solid Masonry Fireproof Building, 1790-1840 -- 2. The Iron and Brick Fireproof Building, 1840-1860 -- 3. Response to the Great Fires: Experimentation in the 1860s to the Early 1880s -- 4. Mill Fire Protection Methods Enter the Mainstream -- 5. Triumph: The Fireproof Skyscraper -- 6. Calamity: Slow Acceptance of Adequate Fire Exits -- Conclusion: The Invisible Infrastructure of Safety.".
- catalog extent "viii, 301 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Fireproof building.".
- catalog identifier "0801863112 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fireproof building.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in industry and society".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Fireproof building.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "628.9/22/097309034 21".
- catalog subject "Building, Fireproof United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Cities and towns United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Fires United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "TH1065 .W47 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Solving the Problem of Urban Conflagration -- 1. The Solid Masonry Fireproof Building, 1790-1840 -- 2. The Iron and Brick Fireproof Building, 1840-1860 -- 3. Response to the Great Fires: Experimentation in the 1860s to the Early 1880s -- 4. Mill Fire Protection Methods Enter the Mainstream -- 5. Triumph: The Fireproof Skyscraper -- 6. Calamity: Slow Acceptance of Adequate Fire Exits -- Conclusion: The Invisible Infrastructure of Safety.".
- catalog title "The fireproof building : technology and public safety in the nineteenth-century American city / Sara E. Wermiel.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".