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  • 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].
  • 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].

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    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 / by Chev. Aldini ... addressed to George Agar Ellis ... and to George Birbeck.

    Giovanni Aldini | Date: 1830
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    Asbestos and fire : technological tradeoffs and the body at risk / Rachel Maines.

    Rachel Maines | Date: 2005
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    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].

    British Fire Prevention Committee. | Date: 1912

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