WITH ILLUSTRATIONS, MEMOIR, AND PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.
LONDON:
BELL AND DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET.
1866.
[The right of Translation is reserved.]
CONTENTS.
| MEMOIR. | |
| PAGE | |
| Introductory, Early Fires, Fire Engines, and Fire Brigades | [5] |
| Mr. Braidwood's birth and education | [7] |
| Great Fire of Edinburgh, and appointment as head of Brigade | [8] |
| Award of Silver Medal of Society of Arts, London; publication of work on Fire Engines | [11] |
| Formation of London Fire Brigade; appointment as Superintendent | [13] |
| Testimonials received upon leaving Edinburgh | [14] |
| London residence and routine of duty | [16] |
| Valuable services of the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire | [17] |
| Statistics of Fires; improvement of Fire Engines | [18] |
| Introduction of ladders, hose reel, and hand pump | [19] |
| Floating Fire Engines, hand worked and steam; Land Steam Fire Engine | [20] |
| Inspection of Government Dockyards and Public Buildings; establishment of a standard hose coupling | [21] |
| Admitted an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers; award of Telford Medal; endeavours to restrain the erection of immoderate-sized warehouses | [22] |
| His opinion as to the inadequacy of London Fire Brigade; Great Tooley Street Fire | [23] |
| Death of Mr. Braidwood | [24] |
| Public funeral | [25] |
| Public and private character | [28] |
| World-wide esteem in which he was held | [30] |
| Poem—A True Hero | [32] |
| FIRE PREVENTION, INCLUDING FIREPROOF STRUCTURES—CAUSES OF FIRES. | |
| Inattention in the use of fires and lights | [33] |
| Advantages of a legal inquiry into the cause of Fires | [37] |
| Improper construction of buildings | [37] |
| Acts of Parliament for buildings in London | [39] |
| Results of improper construction of warehouses in Liverpool | [41] |
| Arrangements for the safety of the audience in theatres | [42] |
| Danger from furnaces and close fires | [43] |
| Danger from pipes conveying products of combustion | [44] |
| Spontaneous ignition; use of gas | [45] |
| Incendiarism; monomania | [46] |
| FIREPROOF STRUCTURES. | |
| What is fireproof construction | [47] |
| Use of cast and wrought-iron | [49] |
| Mr. Fairbairn's experiments | [50] |
| Danger to life from use of cast-iron columns | [54] |
| Report on warehouses | [55] |
| Covering timber with iron | [56] |
| Fireproof dwelling-houses | [57] |
| Fireproof safes | [58] |
| FIRE EXTINCTION, INCLUDING FIRE BRIGADES, FIRE ENGINES, AND WATER SUPPLY—FIRE BRIGADES. | |
| Individual exertions for Fire Extinction | [59] |
| Fire Brigades on the Continent of Europe, in England, in America | [66] |
| Necessity for the control of arrangements by one individual | [67] |
| Proposal for a national system | [68] |
| Fire Engines at noblemen's and gentlemen's residences | [70] |
| Training and discipline of Firemen | [71] |
| General instructions for Firemen, and for the use of Fire Engines | [72] |
| Necessity for the water striking the burning materials | [74] |
| Inventions for elevating branch pipes considered | [76] |
| LONDON FIRE BRIGADE. | |
| General description of men and engines | [79] |
| Division of London into districts | [81] |
| General regulations | [82] |
| Conditions of entrance into the establishment | [83] |
| Outline of general duty | [85] |
| Duties of Superintendent | [88] |
| " Foremen | [90] |
| " Engineers | [93] |
| " Sub-Engineers and Firemen | [94] |
| EDINBURGH FIRE BRIGADE. | |
| Description of men selected | [96] |
| Mode of communicating with Firemen at a Fire | [97] |
| Dress and drill of Firemen | [99] |
| Gymnastic exercises | [104] |
| General regulations | [106] |
| Duties of Police | [107] |
| " Superintendent of Brigade | [109] |
| " Head Enginemen | [110] |
| " Firemen, and High Constables | [111] |
| " Magistrates, and Gas-Light Companies | [113] |
| Special regulations for Firemen | [114] |
| Means of escape from Fire | [118] |
| FIRE ENGINES. | |
| The application of manual power | [123] |
| Engines used by the British Government | [124] |
| Description of Brigade Fire Engine | [126] |
| Hand Pump; keeping Fire Engines in order | [130] |
| Selection of Engine House | [132] |
| Apparatus provided with London Brigade Engine | [133] |
| Leather hose | [134] |
| Hose couplings | [140] |
| Suction pipes | [143] |
| Jet pipes, proper shape | [145] |
| Fire annihilator | [149] |
| WATER SUPPLY. | |
| By pressure, from surface of ground, and by sunk tanks | [150] |
| Experiments with jets under a constant pressure | [153] |
| Fire plug used in London | [155] |
| Canvas cistern and stand-cock used with fire plug | [156] |
| Double fire-cock used in the Government Dockyards | [158] |
| Double hollow key fire-cock used in the British Museum | [159] |
| Supply by Water Companies in London | [162] |
| Supplying Fire Engines from fire-cocks, &c. | [163] |
| APPENDIX. | |
| Steam Fire Engines, progress in construction | [166] |
| Trials before the Jury of the International Exhibition, 1862 | [168] |
| Trials at the International Competition, London, 1863 | [173] |
| Steam Fire Engines in use by Metropolitan Brigade, May, 1866 | [181] |
| Act of Parliament for Metropolitan Fire Brigade | [182] |
| Establishment of Metropolitan Fire Brigade | [197] |