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THESE two small books embody the British Fire Prevention Committee's Report on Fire Tests made respectively with skylight openings and windows filled in with “wired glass” manufactured in our own country. The skylights were five in number, each 2 ft. square, and arranged horizontally in a single straight row. The glazing was subjected to fire for an hour, followed by water from a steam fire-engine applied at close range for two minutes on the fire side. No fire passed through the glazing, but more or less water found its way through three of the five. Details of the tests are given, with illustrations showing the effects of the fire. The three vertical windows were subjected to a precisely similar test with much the same results. In the case of two of the windows neither fire nor water passed through the glazing, but in the third, though no fire passed through, the application of water caused perforation and some water got through. The temperatures reached before the application of water were not less than 1500° F.(or 815·5° C). The maximum size of the vertical glazing tested was four feet by one foot.
Fire Tests with Glass.
“Red Books,” Nos. 196 and 197.(London: British Fire Prevention Committee.) Price 2s. 6d. each.
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A., J. Fire Tests with Glass . Nature 95, 506 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095506b0
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