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This 104-page pamphlet is the official report of the Committee appointed by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) to investigate the fire that destroyed or damaged more than half of the buildings in the West Orange laboratory complex on December 9, 1914. It is a reprint of the report that originally appeared in the Journal of the American Concrete Institute, Vol. III, No. 8 (August 1915). The report, which is signed by Chairman Cass Gilbert, Secretary E. J. Moore, and six other ACI members, concludes that "considering the extraordinary conditions surrounding this fire, the behavior of the concrete buildings was highly satisfactory and constitutes an excellent demonstration of the merits of concrete as a fire-resisting material." Included are numerous photographs of the exterior and interior of the laboratory buildings during and after the fire.
Following the report, which ends on page 63, are comments and discussion involving numerous concrete experts, including Rudolph James Wig of the U.S. Bureau of Standards; construction engineer Theodore Lincoln Condron, whom Edison hired to make plans for repairing the reinforced concrete buildings; civil engineer Nathan Clarke Johnson; architect Emile George Perrot; Edward Dayton Boyer of the Atlas Portland Cement Co.; municipal engineer Arthur Newell Talbot; and ACI president, Richard Lewis Humphrey.
[X511A], Report from Cass Gilbert, American Concrete Institute, Richard Lewis Humphrey, Egbert Jessup Moore, William H Ham, August 1915 1915-08-00
[X511B], Report from Rudolph James Wig, August 1915 1915-08-00
[X511C], Report from Theodore Lincoln Condron, August 1915 1915-08-00
[X511D], Report from Nathan Clarke Johnson, August 1915 1915-08-00
[X511E], Report from Emile George Perrot, Edward Dayton Boyer, Arthur Newell Talbot, Nathan Clarke Johnson, Richard Lewis Humphrey, Theodore Lincoln Condron, August 1915 1915-08-00