Author: Edward Vinton French
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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1860--fifty Years--1910
Author: Edward Vinton French
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2202
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2202
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Writings on American History
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Author: Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Boston
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Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Factory Mutual Record
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Petroleum and Public Safety
Author: James B. McSwain
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Author-title Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Charter, By-laws and Members of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co., of Jackson County
Author: Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company (Jackson County, Mich.)
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Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Report of the Atlantic Mutual Fire Ins. Company, Exeter, N.H.
Author: Atlantic Mutual Fire Insurance Co
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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