The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 258
fire hazard from without it is folly to place ones trust in fireproofbuildings fitted with wooden window sash and plain glass. The ruin atWest Orange, thrown in relief by being linked with the great inventorsname, preaches that lesson to the matter-of-fact executive more stronglythan all the… … LOCATION AND TYPE OF BUILDINGS AT THE EDISON PLANT with closely spaced buildings, all of them without the fire-protection pro-visions which long experience has demonstrated to be essential for thesafeguarding of such structures. Moreover, there were no fire walls toprevent the spread of the flames…
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