The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City. By Sara E. Wermiel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. viii + 301 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86311-2.

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The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City. By Sara E. Wermiel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. viii + 301 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86311-2.

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Information: Business History Review , Volume 75 , Special Issue 1: Special Issue: Computers and Communications Networks , Spring 2001 , pp. 202 - 204

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The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City. By Sara E. Wermiel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. viii + 301 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86311-2.

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