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This document provides a table of contents and references for a book on the history of firefighting. The table of contents lists chapters on the origins of firefighting, great fires, fire insurance companies, fire brigades and equipment, fireproof buildings, fire regulations, and fire sprinklers. The references section lists over 30 sources, mostly books published between the 1950s-1990s, on topics related to the history of firefighting, equipment, brigades, insurance, and building regulations.

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Fire

This document provides a table of contents and references for a book on the history of firefighting. The table of contents lists chapters on the origins of firefighting, great fires, fire insurance companies, fire brigades and equipment, fireproof buildings, fire regulations, and fire sprinklers. The references section lists over 30 sources, mostly books published between the 1950s-1990s, on topics related to the history of firefighting, equipment, brigades, insurance, and building regulations.

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A

FIRE-FIGHTING
HISTORY

A CIBSE HERITAGE GROUP


ELECTRONIC BOOK
A FIRE-FIGHTING
HISTORY

Fire at Covent Garden, London, 1808 [TP, plate 28]


A FIRE-FIGHTING
HISTORY

Compiled by

BRIAN ROBERTS
Chairman, CIBSE Heritage Group
A FIRE-FIGHTING
HISTORY

Origins of Fire

CONTENTS
REFERENCES

FIREFIGHTING HISTORY chapter 9 of the book by Billington & Roberts 1982

GREAT FIRES Cities Buildings

FIRE INSURANCE Companies Firemarks Fire Offices Documents

FIRE BRIGADES & ENGINES

FIRE EXTINGUISHERS Hand Apparatus Grenades

FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT Early Days Alarms & Hydrants


Escapes Ventilation

FIREPROOF BUILDINGS Floors 1800-60 Buildings

FIRE REGULATIONS- HVAC (USA) 1937

FIRE SPRINKLERS History 1723-1930 Pioneers


FIRE FIGHTING & FIRE
PROTECTION
These are arranged in alphabetical order of the code reference letters [in square brackets]
which precede the detailed reference information, the code being used in the text and to
indicate the picture source when included with an illustration caption.

References
[AIR] The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution, Brian Bracegirdle, Heinemann,
London, 1973.

[AFV] Automatic Fire Ventilation, Colt Ventilation & Heating, Surbiton, undated (c.1964).

[BSE] Building Services Engineering: A Review of its Development, (Chapter 9:


Firefighting), Neville S Billington & Brian M Roberts, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1982.

[CH] Courage High (A History of Firefighting in London), Sally Holloway, HMSO,


London, 1992

[DRM] De Re Metallica, Georgius Agricola , 1556; translated by H C & L H Hoover, Dover


Publications, New York, 1950 (from the 1912 Mining Magazine, London)..

[ECP] Essex Copper Plate, Henry Halls, privately printed, 1968.

[FAU] The Fire at Uppark, Adam Nicolson, The National Trust, Toucan Books, London,
1990.

[FE] Firefighting Equipment, Brian Wright, Shire Album 232, Aylesbury, 1989.

[FFA] Fire Fighting Appliances, K R Gilbert, Catalogue of the Collection, Science


Museum, London, HMSO, London, 1969.

[FFEF] Fire Engines and Fire-Fighting, David Burgess-Wise, Octopus Books, London,
1977.

[FIWP] Fire Insurance Wall Plaques, Rowland G M Baker, Walton & Weybridge Local
History Society, 1970.
[FM] Fire Marks, John Vince, Shire Album 2, Aylesbury, 1973.

[FOA] Footprints of Assurance, Alwin E Bulae, The Macmillan Company, New York,
1953.

[GAFV] Guide to Automatic Fire Ventilation, Colt International, Havant, February 1987.

[GCF] The Great Chicago Fire, David Lowe, Dover Publications, New York, 1979.

[GFL] The Great Fire of London, Gustav Milne, Historical Publications, New Barnet,
1986.

[GFT] The Ghent Fire Tests, Colt International, Havant, 1990.

[HBR] The History of Building Regulation in London 1189-1972, C C Knowles & P H


Pitt, Architectural Press, London, 1972.

[HC] Home Comfort: A History of Domestic Arrangements, Christina Hardyment,


Viking, London, 1992.

[HFF] History of Fire Fighting, John L Kirk (Ed), Castle Museum, York, 1960.

[HFV] The History of Fire Ventilation, Jerome O’Hea, Building Services Centenary
Supplement, pp. 39-40, October 1997.

[HNAT] How Now –And Then (The Story of How Group), Nigel Watson, James & James,
London, 1997.

[HRFP] High Rise Fire Protection –An Historical Perspective, Richard C Schulte,
Plumbing Engineer, USA, March 1997.

[HSD] A History of Sprinkler Development, Ron Heggs, AMEC, Fire Engineering,


London, 2001.

[LFB] London’s Fire Brigades, W Eric Jackson, Longmans Green, London, 1966.

[LNBF] London’s Noble Fire Brigades, 1833-1904, Sally Holloway, Cassell, London,
1973.

[IHVE] IHVE Guide, Book B, Section B5: Fire Protection Systems, London, 1970.

[NBS27] A Short History of the Structural Fire Protection of Buildings, National


Building Studies, Special Report No. 27, HMSO, London, 1958.
[NFBU90] Air Conditioning, Warm Air Heating, Air Cooling and Ventilating Systems,
Regulations of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, Pamphlet No. 90, New York, 15 July
1937.

[NYB] New York’s Bravest; Eight Decades of Photographs…, Shawn O’Sullivan (Ed) &
Patrice O’ Shaughnessy, powerHouse Cultural Entertainment, New York, 2002.

[PBC] Pyne’s British Costumes, William H Pyne (facsimile edition of the 18th century
original), Wordsworth Editions, Ware, 1898.

[QC] The Quest for Comfort (CIBSE Centenary), Brian Roberts, Fire Protection, pp.96-
99 & plate VI, IMI Waterheating, 1997.

[STL] The Sky’s the Limit (A History of the Colt Group), Nigel Watson, James & James,
London, 1997.

[TP] Things Phoenix 1782-1982, K B Croker, Phoenix Assurance, London, 1982.

[VBGI] Vulcan 1859-1959 (The History of One Hundred Years of Engineering and
Insurance), W H Chaloner, Vulcan Boiler & General Insurance, 1959.

[VI] Victorian Inventions, Leonard de Vries, John Murray, London, 1973.

[VSEP] Victorian Science and Engineering Portrayed (In the Illustrated London News),
Kenneth Chew & Anthony Wilson, Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1993.

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