Author: National Board of Fire Underwriters. Committee on Legislation and TaxationPublisher:
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Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
National Board of Fire Underwriters. Report of the Committee on Legislation and Taxation April 22, 1874
Author: National Board of Fire Underwriters. Committee on Legislation and TaxationPublisher:
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Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Petroleum and Public Safety
Author: James B. McSwainPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169145
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal governments should play in protecting the public from these threats. James B. McSwain’s Petroleum and Public Safety reveals how officials in these cities created standards based on technical, scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically workable ordinances related to the storage and handling of fuel. Each of the cities studied in this volume struggled through protracted debates regarding the regulation of crude petroleum and fuel oil, sparked by the famous Spindletop strike of 1901 and the regional oil boom in the decades that followed. Municipal governments sought to ensure the safety of their citizens while still reaping lucrative economic benefits from local petroleum industry activities. Drawing on historical antecedents such as fire-protection engineering, the cities of the Gulf South came to adopt voluntary, consensual fire codes issued by insurance associations and standards organizations such as the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protection Association, and the Southern Standard Building Code Conference. The culmination of such efforts was the creation of the International Fire Code, an overarching fire-protection guide that is widely used in the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. In devising ordinances, Gulf South officials pursued the politics of risk management, as they hammered out strategies to eliminate or mitigate the dangers associated with petroleum industries and to reduce the possible consequences of catastrophic oil explosions and fires. Using an array of original sources, including newspapers, municipal records, fire-insurance documents, and risk-management literature, McSwain demonstrates that Gulf South cities played a vital role in twentieth-century modernization.
Proceedings of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, and of the Executive Committee, April 22-23, 1874, to April 1-2, 1875
Author: National Board of Fire UnderwritersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Journal of the Franklin Institute
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-1859. cf. Index to v. 1-120 of the Journal, p. [415]
Journal of the Franklin Institute
Author: Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)Publisher:
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-59.
The Franklin Journal, and American Mechanics' Magazine
Author: National Board of Fire Underwriters. Eighth Annual Meeting
Author: National Board of Fire UnderwritersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Proceedings of the National Board of Fire Underwriters and of the Executive Committee [and Other Documents].
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Author: National Board of Fire UnderwritersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Address to the National Board of Fire Underwriters
Author: Citizens' Association of ChicagoPublisher:
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Category : Fire prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Reports of T.H. Montgomery, General Agent, Sept. 1872-Apr. 1877
Author: National Board of Fire UnderwritersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description