Fire prevention - Early works to 1800
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Remedies against the desolations of fire , and other fatal trials. Occasion'd by the late ruin at Blandford, Tiverton, Ramsey, &c. and by the epidemical visitation in some distant places of our traffick. By George Ollyffe, M.A.
Ollyffe, George, 1682-1752.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]- E-books
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In pursuance of His Majesty's commands, this is to give notice, that as there are many scaffolds built, and are now building, and much timber lying in Westminster, it is His Majesty's pleasure, that to prevent any accidents that may happen from fires, there should be no bonfires made, or any fire-works played off, in any part of Westminster, ... till seven days after the coronation; ..
Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III)Date: 1761]- E-books
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Richard Newsham, of cloth-fair, London, engineer, (August, 1726.) Makes the most useful, substantial, cheap, and convenient engines for quenching fires, which carry a constant stream with great force. ..
Newsham, Richard, d. 1744.Date: 1726]- E-books
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Richard Newsham, of cloth-fair, London, engineer, 1727. Makes the most useful, substantial, and convenient engines for quenching fires, which carries continual streams with great force. ..
Newsham, Richard, d. 1744.Date: 1727]- E-books
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Rules and regulations of the Alert Fire-Society, instituted at Boston, November 19, 1787
Alert Fire-Society (Boston, Mass.)Date: 1798