Fireproof Construction (Classic Reprint): An Authoritative Presentation of the Fire Prevention Problem, Giving the Historical Development of the Art ... and Fire-Resisting (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from Fireproof Construction: An Authoritative Presentation of the Fire Prevention Problem, Giving the Historical Development of the Art of Safe Building, and the Best Modern Practice in Fireproof and Fire-Resisting

From the beginning of time fire has played a most important part in the world's evolution, changes, progress, its very existence. Physicists will tell you the composition of fire, its why and where1 fore, but with all that we are not now concerned. Suffice it for us that fire is what might be called, for our purpose, the visible expres sion of heat. Without solar heat there would be no life here; abso lutely everything depends upon it. But we are not dealing with reflected solar rays and such highly interesting but ultra-scientific matter; we have in mind now mere fire, the combustion of inflam mable materials by ignition and the destruction or damage to many materials by exposure to great heat generated by fire plain, ter restrial burning.

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