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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Tlw Arcliilcct ami liiic^hiccr 77 buikliiiijs at the cost uf travcliiis;- lime and inconvenience. Jlie proiileni of seg-regation can now be met without >hiftini; the process out of its logical placein the routine of manufacture. In a tirejiroofed factory only a separate room,or at best a separate floor is needed. The manufacturer who, <ince when hehad a fire in some room where volatile oils, for example, were used, conunonlylost half his plant, or at any rate so drenched his ))remises witii water as tomake a fortnights suspension necessary, can now. if he likes, so dispose thathazard as to have a fire every other day without disturbing the other parts ofthe factory. The modern fireproof room ef;ui))ped with automatic sprinklers.having a slightly pitched tloor and scuppers at the walls, can be Hooded for fireextinguishment without a drop connng through below. The water runs asharmlessly from it as from the deck of a ship. In mill construction it is easv to fire))roof the floors a

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