The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 360
ers not oidy his plant, butthe lives of his employees. It is notsufficient that the building be fire-proofed. Firejiroofed is but a relativeterm. Buildings of fireproof construc-tion are often wrecked and ruined bythe burning of their contents. Pro-vision must be made for the extin-guishment of a… … Opening4!n.xi2in, 78 Tlic Architrct and Engineer neglected previous to the tire. Automatic sprinklers, with their increasingadoption, have ahnost eliminated a kind of fire which used to be especially de-structive ; namely, explosions of gaseous products generated by previous slowand imperfect…
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