The Fireproof Building
Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City (Studies in Industry and Society)
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Word Count
78,000 words, Guess
Page Count
312 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7870546M
- ISBN-139780801863110
- ISBN-100801863112
- OCLC Control Number42692096
- OCLC Control Numberfireproofbuildin0000werm
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99052228
- Goodreads2422645
- LibraryThing3500465
Classifications
- LCCTH1065 .W47 2000
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."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
In 1631, the year after the arrival of the first settlers from the Massachusetts Bay Company, colonial authorities passed a law prohibiting wooden chimneys and thatch roofs in Boston.
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