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Experiments Relating to Hydraulics of Fire Streams
Although the hydraulics of fire streams may seem but an important special branch of the science of hydraulics, yet when we consider that in the United States alone there is property to the value of upward of one hundred million dollars destroyed by fire each year, and that probably twenty-five million dollars per year more is expended in maintaining fire departments, investigation in detail of the scientific principles governing the customary means of delivering water for extinguishing fires appears amply justified. That the skill of the engineer may find a most worthy field of action in the prevention of loss by fire is illustrated in the unparalleled immunity from serious fire loss enjoyed by the great cotton factories of Lowell, where for many years the arrangements for supplying water for extinguishing fire have been under the direct care of the honored Past President of our Society, Mr. James B. Francis.
Experiments Relating to Hydraulics of Fire Streams
Although the hydraulics of fire streams may seem but an important special branch of the science of hydraulics, yet when we consider that in the United States alone there is property to the value of upward of one hundred million dollars destroyed by fire each year, and that probably twenty-five million dollars per year more is expended in maintaining fire departments, investigation in detail of the scientific principles governing the customary means of delivering water for extinguishing fires appears amply justified. That the skill of the engineer may find a most worthy field of action in the prevention of loss by fire is illustrated in the unparalleled immunity from serious fire loss enjoyed by the great cotton factories of Lowell, where for many years the arrangements for supplying water for extinguishing fire have been under the direct care of the honored Past President of our Society, Mr. James B. Francis.
Experiments Relating to Hydraulics of Fire Streams
Freeman, John R. (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 21 ; 303-461
2021-01-01
1591889-01-01 pages
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Discussion on Hydraulics of Fire Streams
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Engineering Index Backfile | 1941
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