BOOK
Title:
The evolution of fire hose
Publication:
John Royle & sons, Paterson, 1952.
Notes:
Mentions leather hose by Pennock and Sellers, p.4. From Royle forum, December 1951.
Call #:
B P31x no.80
Extent:
p.3-8 : illus. ; quarto.
Subjects:
Subject
BOOK
Title:
Mémoire sur l'emploi des gazes métalliques pour rendre les édifices incombustibles
Creator:
Rochon, Alexis, 1741-1817
Publication:
de l'Imprimerie de Madame Veuve Courcier, Paris, 1812]
Notes:
Caption title. "Lu à Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques de l'Institut, le 18 mai 1812."
Call #:
PAM. V.1102, NO.13
Extent:
6 p. ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Mémoire sur la meilleure manière d'éviter le danger du feu dans la fabrication des fanaux destinés à éclairer les villes et les vaisseux, qui sert de supplément à celui lu à l'Institut, le 18 mai 1812, sur l'emploi des gazes métalliques
Creator:
Rochon, Alexis, 1741-1817
Publication:
de l'Imprimerie de Mme. Veuve Courcier, Paris, 1812]
Notes:
Caption title.
Call #:
PAM. V.1102, NO.14
Extent:
p. [7]-13 ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Philadelphia's first fire defences
Creator:
Gillingham, Harrold E. (Harrold Edgar), 1864-1954
Publication:
Historical society of Penn,
Notes:
Reprint from the Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, vol.56, Oct. 1932, p.355-377.
Call #:
614.846 G41P
Extent:
p. : pl. ; octavo.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
How trouble troubled Little Bear Forest: A story for school children that will also interest the grown-ups
Creator:
Stadden, Norah Apple.
Publication:
Harrisburg], 1922.
Call #:
634.9748 P38B NO.29
Extent:
18 p. : illus. ; 15 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
A Short account of experiments made in Italy and recently repeated in Geneva and Paris, for preserving human life and objects of value from destruction by fire
Creator:
Aldini, Giovanni, 1762-1834
Publication:
To be had of P. Rolandi ... J. Ridgeway ... C. Wilson ... Burgess and Hill, London, 1830.
Call #:
Pam. v.699, no.3
Extent:
24 p. : plate ; octavo.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Enjine!--Enjine!: A story of fire protection
Creators:
Dunshee, Kenneth Holcomb. | Home Insurance Company
Publication:
H.V. Smith, New York, 1939.
Call #:
368.1 D924
Extent:
63 p. : il., pl. ; quarto.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Address, written at the request of the Association for the relief of disabled firemen & delivered on the occasion of the fireman's benefit, Jan. 27, 1835
Creators:
Conrad, Robert Taylor, 1810-1858 | Downing, Thomas.
Publication:
Philadelphia, 1836]
Notes:
No title-page.
Call #:
Pam. v.784, no.17
Extent:
8 p. ; octavo.
Subjects:
ANALYTIC
Title:
Of securing houses and their inhabitants from fire, and of obtaining supplies of water and of warm air
Alt. Title:
American journal of science and arts
Parent:
American Journal of Science and Arts, v.25-26
Publication:
New Haven, 1834.
Notes:
Supplement: v.26, p.286-304. References to Benjamin Franklin.
Call #:
505 AM3J V.25-26
Extent:
p.290-304 ; 22 cm.
Subjects:
PAMPHLET
Title:
List of premiums offered by the society for the improvement of naval architecture: to which is annexed, an account of Mr. John Read's method of stopping the progress of fire on board of ships
Creators:
Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture (London, England) | Read, John.
Publication:
London, 1793.
Notes:
"Illustrated by an engraving."
Call #:
PAM. V.1227, NO.1
Extent:
15 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
BOOK
Title:
One hundred years: being a short history of fires, and the methods of fighting fires during the past one hundred years ... reproductions of etchings of historical buildings in Philadelphia ... also a brief story of the founding and growth of the Franklin fire insurance com
Creator:
Gray, Jerome B.
Publication:
The Franklin Fire Insurance Co, Philadelphia, 1929.
Notes:
Map of early Philadelphia on front end papers.
Call #:
368.1 F85G C.2
Extent:
82 p. : il. pl. ; octavo.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
The theory of chimnies and fire-places investigated; the principle of those recommended by Count Rumford fully explained, and their construction improved: To which is added, a method of preparing houses and ships, at little expence, in such a manner, that, in case of fire, it may be extinguished
Creator:
Danforth, Thomas, 1772-1817
Publication:
T. Heptinstall, London, 1796.
Notes:
References to Benjamin Franklin.
Call #:
697.8 D21t
Extent:
46 p. ; 20 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
One hundred years: being a short history of fires, and the methods of fighting fires during the past one hundred years ... reproductions of etchings of historical buildings in Philadelphia ... also a brief story of the founding and growth of the Franklin fire insurance com
Creator:
Gray, Jerome B.
Publication:
The Franklin Fire Insurance Co, Philadelphia, 1929.
Notes:
Map of early Philadelphia on front end papers.
Call #:
368.1 G85G C.1
Extent:
82 p. : il. pl. ; octavo.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
The historical collection of Insurance Company of North America
Creators:
McCosker, M. J. | Insurance Company of North America
Publication:
Insurance Company of North America], Philadelphia, 1967.
Notes:
Cover title: Historical collection of Insurance Company of North America, 1792-1967. For portrait of Benjamin Franklin see p.47. Includes bibliography.
Call #:
368.1 IN7XM.2
Extent:
[7] ., 213 p. : illus. (part. col.) ; quarto.
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1764-1858
Abstract:
Personal and professional correspondence of the chemist Robert Hare, including drafts of letters to editors of journals on such varied topics as fish guano, slaughterhouses, paper money, and the meaning of the term "Yankee annexations." The collection originally contained over 300 scrolls, since disbound, which contained drafts of letters, essays, and lectures, composed by Hare on ordinary sheets of paper, then pasted end to end, and rolled up. The essay and lecture topics include: chemistry, storms, slavery, currency, fire-fighting, capital punishment, railroads, the Smithsonian Institution, Michael Faraday, religion and Spiritualism, riots in Philadelphia, epidemics, underwater blasting, and Ralph W. Emerson; there is some verse. The collection also contains an account book of Hare and his wife, 1806-1829 (180 pp.; B/H22#3); a volume by Hare on Cyclones (tornadoes), n.d. (ca. 60 pp.; B/H22#4); and Samuel Powel, Jr.'s "Short notes on a course of antiquities at Rome... under M. Byre Antiquarian," 1764. (60 pp.).
Call #:
Mss.B.H22
Extent:
3 Linear feet
Subjects:
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Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Philosophical Society | Antebellum Politics | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Banks and banking -- United States. | Blasting, Submarine | Blowpipe. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Capital punishment. | Chemical apparatus | Chemistry | Chemists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Cyclones. | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Electricity -- 19th century | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Epidemics -- United States | Essays. | Federalist Party -- Pennsylvania | Fire extinction | Fisher, John, 1806-1882 | Fisher, Richard | General Correspondence | Guano | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Kane , John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Lectures | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Money | Paper money -- United States -- 19th century | Partridge, Charles | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Poems | Powel, Samuel, Jr. | Race, race relations, racism | Railroads | Religion | Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities | Science and technology | Scientific Data | Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 | Sketchbooks | Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- United States -- 19th century | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Smithsonian Institution | Spiritualism -- Pennsylvania | Storms | Tornadoes | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
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