اللغة:
שפה נוכחית
Crucible of Fire Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service
لتكبير النص لتصغير النص- كتاب
How the tragedies of the nineteenth-century's great municipal fires changed firefighting today
| العنوان |
Crucible of Fire Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service / Bruce Hensler. |
|---|---|
| الطبعة |
1st ed. |
| الناشر |
Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books |
| Manufacture |
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE |
| تاريخ الإصدار |
2011 |
| ملاحظات |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-220) and index. English |
| رقم الرف |
Pt. 1. The context of the modern fire service -- Origins of organized fire service -- Firefighter culture -- Contemporary firefighting -- pt. 2. The fire problem defined -- Great fire in Pittsburgh -- Fire in the built environment -- Fire and human behavior -- Fire in rural areas and wildlands -- pt. 3. The fire service under fire -- Transformative forces to make firefighting safer -- Cultural change needed to improve firefighter safety -- Transitional forces create new fire service model -- pt. 4. Learning to fight great urban fires -- London and the development of a fire service -- Portland and the Board of Fire Underwriters -- Boston and the standardization of fire protection -- pt. 5. Learning to control building fires -- Fire protection in theory -- Deadly fire in a fireproof hotel -- Firefighting, building codes, and technology -- pt. 6. Firefighters, engineers, and underwriters -- New England mills and the factory mutual system -- Fighting fires : from art to science -- Volunteers to paid firemen -- Legacy of the combustible city. |
| الشكل |
1 online resource (244 p.) |
| اللغة |
الانكليزية |
| تأريخ حقوق الملكية الفكرية |
©2011. |
| رقم النظام |
997010706054805171 |
MARC RECORDS
وسوم
- Fires Social aspects United States History 19th century.
- Fire prevention Social aspects United States History 19th century.
- Fire fighters United States History 19th century.
- Fire departments United States History 19th century.
- Fire extinction United States History 19th century.
- City and town life United States History 19th century.
- Cities and towns United States History 19th century.
- Fires United States History 19th century.
- Fire prevention United States History 19th century.
- Global cities
- Municipalities
- Towns
- Urban areas
- Urban systems
- Buildings Fires and fire prevention
- Fire safety
- Fires Prevention
- Prevention of fires
- City life
- Town life
- Urban life
- Extinction of fires
- Fighting of fires
- Fire fighting
- Fire suppression
- Firefighting
- Brigades, Fire
- Fire brigades
- Fire companies
- Firefighters
- nne Firemen
- Conflagrations
- Fire losses
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