Author: YOUNG (David)
Title: Observations upon Fire, with a view to the best and most expeditious methods of extinguishing it, upon a new plan, with or without water.
Description: Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, and Sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1784. First edition, 8vo (211 x 133 mm), [4], 48pp., stitched as issued, orig. blue paper wrappers, lower wrapper lightly stained. The author offers a practical guidance on fire management and fire extinction. Some of his ideas are simple and pretty mundane - wet cloths, wet straw, earth and so forth. Others are more controversial such as the use of gunpowder balls to blow the fire out by violent explosions.

Keywords: SOCIAL STUDIES FIRE