ILLUSTRATIONS.
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| Portrait of Mr. Braidwood on steel by Jeens, from a photograph by Williams | [Frontispiece]. |
| Longitudinal section of Brigade Fire Engine | [124] |
| Transverse section of ditto | [125] |
| Old coupling for hose | [140] |
| New ditto, ditto | [141] |
| Branch and jet pipe | [145] |
| Opening in sunk tank for suction pipe | [151] |
| Fire plug used in London | [155] |
| Fire plug with canvas cistern | [156] |
| Fire plug with stand-cock | [157] |
| Single fire-cock | [158] |
| Double fire-cock used at dockyards | [158] |
| Double fire-cock used at British Museum | [159] |
EDITOR'S PREFACE.
The appearance at the beginning of last year, in the Annual Report of the Institution of Civil Engineers for 1861 and 1862, of a short memoir of Mr. Braidwood, suggested the publication of a more extended account of the life of the late head of the London Fire Brigade, combined with his opinions upon the subject of his profession.
These opinions are comprised in a work on "Fire Engines, and the Training of Firemen," published in Edinburgh in 1830; two papers upon cognate subjects read before the Institution of Civil Engineers, two similar papers read before the Society of Arts, and in a variety of reports upon public buildings, warehouses, &c. While regretting the great loss that the public has sustained, in being deprived by Mr. Braidwood's sudden death of a complete record of his long and varied London experience, it has been considered advisable to republish the above materials arranged in a systematic form, omitting only such parts as the Author's more matured experience rendered desirable, but confining the whole to his own words.
London,
June, 1866.