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Fire tests with fire extinguishers : supplementary experimental tests on portable chemical fire extinguishers particulars of experimental tests and some suggestions

British Fire Prevention Committee.

Date: 1914

Fire tests with textiles : flannelette "ordinary", flannelette "fine finish", art muslin, curtain net, scenic canvas, as also tissue paper and wadding; untreated and treated with Snowdon's Flame-Proofing Solution submitted for test by Snowdon & Co., Ltd., London the Committee's report

British Fire Prevention Committee.

Date: 1912

The Brussels Exhibition fire : with some suggestions as to safeguards at future temporary exhibitions set out in the form of model regulations

Sachs, Edwin O.

Date: 1911

Fire tests with glass : five skylight openings filled in with "Wired Glass" by Messrs. Pilkington Brothers, Limited, St. Helens the Committee's report

British Fire Prevention Committee.

Date: 1914

Fire tests with glass : a test with three window openings filled in with "Wired Glass" by Messrs. Pilkington Brothers, Limited, St. Helens the Committee's report

British Fire Prevention Committee.

Date: 1914

Fire tests with glass : a test with three window openings filled in with "Wired Glass" by Messrs. Pilkington Brothers, Limited, St. Helens the Committee's report

British Fire Prevention Committee.

Date: 1914

The nature of fire.

Date: 1969

The nature of fire.

Date: 1969

Celluloid dangers with some suggestions : being memoranda compiled in consultation with the committee's executive

Date: 1913

Protect your child from fire : close fitting garments plus fire guards spell safety : see also our pamphlet "A child in danger"

Fire Protection Association. Fire Offices' Committee.

Date: [1950?]

Fire-fighters and fire-fighting techniques. Process print.

Types of fire engine. Etching by Mutlow, 1809.

Mutlow, active 1808-1840.

Date: Oct. 1st 1809

Fire tests with fire extinguishers : a special series of experimental tests on 81 portable chemical fire extinguishers particulars of experimental tests and memoranda on the Committee's standards, etc., for portable chemical fire extinguishers

British Fire Prevention Committee.

Date: 1914

Schedule V. Flannette garments fire tests, 1910

A hydraulic system for a Rowntree's fire engine. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1812, after J. Farey.

Farey, John, the younger, active 1813-1820.

Date: 1812

Photographs of flannette garments fire tests, 1910

Two fire eaters in southern India: a man and a woman. Gouache painting.

Date: [1815?]

Geography: birds and animals fleeing a prairie fire. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

Whymper, Charles H., 1853-1941.

Josephine Giraldelli, a woman impervious to fire. Reproduction of an engraving.

Schedule II. Flannel and flannelette fire tests, 1910

Schedule IV. Flannel and flannelette fire tests, 1910

Log of fire tests on flannelette (fine surface), 1910

Schedule I. Flannel and flannelette fire tests, 1910

Josephine Giraldelli, a woman impervious to fire. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1823.

Cooper, Robert, active 1814-1836.

Date: 1 May 1823

A short account of experiments made in Italy and recently repeated in Geneva and Paris, for preserving human life and objects of value from destruction by fire

Aldini, Giovanni, 1762-1834.

Date: 1830

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