[PDF.26jo] The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City (Studies in Industry and Society)

The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City (Studies in Industry and Society)

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|| ||"In thoroughly examining the technological and legal aspects of fireproof construction, Wermiel's work illuminates the history of architecture, engineering, business, and insurance, and American social history as well... Wermiel's impressive analytic powers i

From the first American attempts at fireproof construction in the 1790s to the steel and concrete high-rises of the early twentieth century, 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--o...

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