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Author : Harry Chase Brearley
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Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Chase Brearley
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ISBN 13 : 9781332127672
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force: An Historical and a Critical Study of the Work of the National Board of Fire Underwriters The United States might well have been named Terra del Fuego - "Land of Fire." It has an average of 1500 fires per day, or more than one a minute, a daily loss of $600,000. A value equal to one-quarter the total for all the new buildings erected each year is thus destroyed, and in 1906 this proportion rose to one-half. Every fire subtracts a definite sum of the national wealth through irretrievable loss. This country is proud of its petroleum, gold, silver, and copper production, but its fire-tax - the direct cost of its fires and the incidental expenditures resulting therefrom - consumes as much wealth as these four industries together create. Fire is one of the great outstanding economic factors of American civilization, and, in consequence, fire insurance has become one of our most familiar institutions. The American public has, in a general way, some acquaintance with these facts and has grown to look upon fire insurance as a natural precaution, but there has been slight appreciation of the magnitude of loss-statistics or of the vast proportions of American fire underwriting, with its thirty million policies and its sixty billion dollars on insurance in force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Harry Chase Brearley
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Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Chase Brearley
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021462992
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force; an Historical and a Critical Study of the Work of the National Board of Fire Underwriters written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive history and analysis of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. The authors examine the Board's role in promoting fire safety, improving building codes, and establishing modern fire departments. The book also considers criticisms of the Board, including accusations of cronyism and inefficiency. This book is a fascinating look at the history of fire safety in the United States and the development of modern fire prevention practices. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Harry Chase Brearley
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781358141430
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Download or read book Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Harry Chase Brearley
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Total Pages : 374 pages
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Download or read book The History of the National Board of Fire Underwriters written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Nash 1874- Handy
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781362277460
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book 50 YEARS OF A CIVILIZING FORCE written by Daniel Nash 1874- Handy and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Harry Chase Brearley
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Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book The history of the National Board of Fire Underwriters written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 706 pages
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Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Tebeau
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421407620
Total Pages : 441 pages
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Download or read book Eating Smoke written by Mark Tebeau and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation's largest cities. Between 1871 and 1906, conflagrations left Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, and San Francisco in ruins. Into the twentieth century, this dynamic hazard intensified as cities grew taller and more populous, confounding those who battled it. Firefighters' death-defying feats captured the popular imagination but too often failed to provide more than symbolic protection. Hundreds of fire insurance companies went bankrupt because they could not adequately deal with the effects of even smaller blazes. Firefighters and fire insurers created a physical and cultural infrastructure whose legacy—in the form of heroic firefighters, insurance policies, building standards, and fire hydrants—lives on in the urban built environment. In Eating Smoke, Mark Tebeau shows how the changing practices of firefighters and fire insurers shaped the built landscape of American cities, the growth of municipal institutions, and the experience of urban life. Drawing on a wealth of fire department and insurance company archives, he contrasts the invention of a heroic culture of firefighters with the rational organizational strategies by fire underwriters. Recognizing the complexity of shifting urban environments and constantly experimenting with tools and tactics, firefighters fought fire ever more aggressively—"eating smoke" when they ventured deep into burning buildings or when they scaled ladders to perform harrowing rescues. In sharp contrast to the manly valor of firefighters, insurers argued that the risk was quantifiable, measurable, and predictable. Underwriters managed hazard with statistics, maps, and trade associations, and they eventually agitated for building codes and other reforms, which cities throughout the nation implemented in the twentieth century. Although they remained icons of heroism, firefighters' cultural and institutional authority slowly diminished. Americans had begun to imagine fire risk as an economic abstraction. By comparing the simple skills employed by firefighters—climbing ladders and manipulating hoses—with the mundane technologies—maps and accounting charts—of insurers, the author demonstrates that the daily routines of both groups were instrumental in making intense urban and industrial expansion a less precarious endeavor.
