| MEMOIR. |
| PAGE |
| Introductory, Early Fires, Fire Engines, and Fire Brigades | 5 |
| Mr. Braidwood's birth and education | 7 |
| Great Fire of Edinburgh, and appointment as head of Brigade | 8 |
| Award of Silver Medal of Society of Arts, London; publication of work on Fire Engines | 11 |
| Formation of London Fire Brigade; appointment as Superintendent | 13 |
| Testimonials received upon leaving Edinburgh | 14 |
| London residence and routine of duty | 16 |
| Valuable services of the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire | 17 |
| Statistics of Fires; improvement of Fire Engines | 18 |
| Introduction of ladders, hose reel, and hand pump | 19 |
| Floating Fire Engines, hand worked and steam; Land Steam Fire Engine | 20 |
| Inspection of Government Dockyards and Public Buildings; establishment of a standard hose coupling | 21 |
| Admitted an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers; award of Telford Medal; endeavours to restrain the erection of immoderate-sized warehouses | 22 |
| His opinion as to the inadequacy of London Fire Brigade; Great Tooley Street Fire | 23 |
| Death of Mr. Braidwood | 24 |
| Public funeral | 25 |
| Public and private character | 28 |
| World-wide esteem in which he was held | 30 |
| Poem—A True Hero | 32 |
| FIRE PREVENTION, INCLUDING FIREPROOF STRUCTURES—CAUSES OF FIRES. |
| Inattention in the use of fires and lights | 33 |
| Advantages of a legal inquiry into the cause of Fires | 37 |
| Improper construction of buildings | 37 |
| Acts of Parliament for buildings in London | 39 |
| Results of improper construction of warehouses in Liverpool | 41 |
| Arrangements for the safety of the audience in theatres | 42 |
| Danger from furnaces and close fires | 43 |
| Danger from pipes conveying products of combustion | 44 |
| Spontaneous ignition; use of gas | 45 |
| Incendiarism; monomania | 46 |
| FIREPROOF STRUCTURES. |
| What is fireproof construction | 47 |
| Use of cast and wrought-iron | 49 |
| Mr. Fairbairn's experiments | 50 |
| Danger to life from use of cast-iron columns | 54 |
| Report on warehouses | 55 |
| Covering timber with iron | 56 |
| Fireproof dwelling-houses | 57 |
| Fireproof safes | 58 |
| FIRE EXTINCTION, INCLUDING FIRE BRIGADES, FIRE ENGINES, AND WATER SUPPLY—FIRE BRIGADES. |
| Individual exertions for Fire Extinction | 59 |
| Fire Brigades on the Continent of Europe, in England, in America | 66
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