Stable building and stable fitting : a handbook for the use of architects, builders, and horse owners (1891)
Giraud, Byng · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 47
ldings,lately, very little practical result. It is certain that wood hasoften more effectually opposed the destructive progress of aconflagration than iron. If floors cannot be made absolutely fireproof, they can be Fireproofconstructed to check the progress of fire. Those of the hay floors,and… … much as possible from the action of the heat; for the destruc-tion of a building, in the event of fire, where iron girders areexposed, may be pretty safely anticipated. Fig. lo shows alongitudinal section in part, of a concrete floor composed of one part of Portland cement, Fig. IO. i. r j j r one…
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