The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being a Dictionary of the Definitions of Terms Used in Connexion with the Theory and Practice of Insurance in All Its Branches: a Biographical Summary ... a Bibliographical Repertory of All Works Written Upon the Subject ... an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance ...C. and E. Layton, 1880 - Insurance |
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... pipes with fusible plugs . The heat from the fire was supposed to melt the fusible plug , and the water to descend at the required spot . This plan was but a modification of Sir Samuel Bentham's , first made known in 1797. See FIRE ...
... pipes with fusible plugs . The heat from the fire was supposed to melt the fusible plug , and the water to descend at the required spot . This plan was but a modification of Sir Samuel Bentham's , first made known in 1797. See FIRE ...
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... PIPES , STEAM PIPES , and other mechanical contrivances which have passed out of immediate remembrance . We propose to take a rapid survey of the works relating to , and the criticisms passed upon each ; as also of the legal ...
... PIPES , STEAM PIPES , and other mechanical contrivances which have passed out of immediate remembrance . We propose to take a rapid survey of the works relating to , and the criticisms passed upon each ; as also of the legal ...
Page 62
... pipes . In this case the pipes were not in contact with the wooden casing , but they were stayed and kept upright by cross fillets of wood , which touched them , and these it was which appeared to have taken fire . The small circulating ...
... pipes . In this case the pipes were not in contact with the wooden casing , but they were stayed and kept upright by cross fillets of wood , which touched them , and these it was which appeared to have taken fire . The small circulating ...
Page 63
... pipes ; indeed the wood bearers upon which many of the pipes rested were as fresh and free from defect as when put in . He believed there was no means for producing artificial warmth so free from danger as low - pressure hot - water ...
... pipes ; indeed the wood bearers upon which many of the pipes rested were as fresh and free from defect as when put in . He believed there was no means for producing artificial warmth so free from danger as low - pressure hot - water ...
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... PIPES . ] [ STOVES . ] HEATING CITIES AND TOWNS . - The latest development in the way of heating dwellings and other buildings is not that of dealing with individual cases ( as in the preceding art . ) , but of laying on heated air to ...
... PIPES . ] [ STOVES . ] HEATING CITIES AND TOWNS . - The latest development in the way of heating dwellings and other buildings is not that of dealing with individual cases ( as in the preceding art . ) , but of laying on heated air to ...
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Aberystwith Accident Actuary agent aneurism angina pectoris Annu Annuities apoplexy Asso Assu average Bath Bills of Mort body branch Brighton building causes climate condition connexion considerable consumption contained contract death-rate deaths from diseases defts districts dropsy Eastbourne effect England English estab experience favourable females Fire Friendly Grand Pensionary Hardy hazardous Health Resorts heart disease heat heir Hercules hereditary hist hot water Ilfracombe increase influence Inst insured Invalidity liability Littlehampton Lives Llandudno London Lowestoft males Margate Marine North Meols organ orig paper pericarditis persons Physicians pipes places Post Mag practical prem present Preservation of Health prob Railway Ramsgate rate of mort Reg.-Gen regarded regis remarked risk Sanitary Science Scotland sickness South Bersted Statistics sub-district Teignmouth temperature towns Treatise tuenda ventilation watering-places wherein