Fire prevention and fire extinction

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…