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A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 1732-1806.Reference: 16023i
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A surgeon-apothecary shouts back from an open window at a request for a night-visit to a patient, sending pot plants and a cat flying. Coloured aquatint by H. Pyall after M Egerton (Ego), 1827.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: [1827?]Reference: 608207i
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Specification of Zachariah Barratt : apparatus for sweeping, ventilating and extinguishing fires in chimneys.
Barratt, Zachariah.Date: 1854
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An address to the British public : with suggestions for the recovering property from sunken vessels; also, for the means for rescuing the lives of sailors from stranded vessels; and for the prevention of shipwreck; likewise, on the extinction and prevention of destructive fires; and for rescuing persons from houses enveloped in flames: and for saving from drowning persons who break through the ice. With a description and representation of apparatus used for those purposes, and instructions for their application / By G.W. Manby.
Manby, George William, 1765-1854.Date: 1838- Books
Fire safety in buildings : principles and practice / G.J. Langdon-Thomas.
Langdon-Thomas, G. J.Date: [1972]