12 results filtered with: Fire extinction
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A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 1732-1806.Reference: 16023i
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A surgeon-apothecary shouts back from an open window at a request for a night-visit to a patient, sending pot plants and a cat flying. Coloured aquatint by H. Pyall after M Egerton (Ego), 1827.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: [1827?]Reference: 608207i
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Specification of Zachariah Barratt : apparatus for sweeping, ventilating and extinguishing fires in chimneys.
Barratt, Zachariah.Date: 1854
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An address to the British public : with suggestions for the recovering property from sunken vessels; also, for the means for rescuing the lives of sailors from stranded vessels; and for the prevention of shipwreck; likewise, on the extinction and prevention of destructive fires; and for rescuing persons from houses enveloped in flames: and for saving from drowning persons who break through the ice. With a description and representation of apparatus used for those purposes, and instructions for their application / By G.W. Manby.
Manby, George William, 1765-1854.Date: 1838- Books
Fire safety in buildings : principles and practice / G.J. Langdon-Thomas.
Langdon-Thomas, G. J.Date: [1972]
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Art de se preśerver de l'action de la flamme : appliqué aux pompiers et à la conservation des personnes exposées au feu; avec une série d'experiences faites en Italie, à Genève et à Paris / Par M. le chevalier Aldini.
Aldini, Giovanni, 1762-1834.Date: 1830- Pictures
A fire in the Borgo, Rome, is extinguished by the prayer of Pope Leo IV. Engraving by G. Marcucci, 1862, after P. Guglielmi after Raphael.
Raphael, 1483-1520.Date: 1862Reference: 3048837i
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Saint Florian: he extnguishes a fire by pouring water on a burning house. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 11094i
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Works of mercy: just as water extinguishes fire, so works of mercy (with penitence) extinguish sin. Engraving attributed to T. Galle, 1601.
Date: [1606]Reference: 31968i- Books
Rescue : the history of Britain's emergency services / by Gavin Weightman.
Weightman, Gavin.Date: 1996- Pictures
Red flames representing the risk of spreading fire in case of staff unaware of fire fighting equipment. Colour lithograph for the Berufsgenossenschaft der Feinmechanik und Elektrotechnik, ca. 2000.
Berufsgenossenschaft der Feinmechanik und Elektrotechnik.Date: [2000?]Reference: 755729i
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Men attempt to quell the flames of the House of Commons with water piped from fire engines and a rocket attached to a man's back inscribed 'war'. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: Oct 27 1834 :Reference: 643195i