How Amsterdam invented the fire department
- In the seventeenth century, Amsterdam was likely the wealthiest city in the world.
- Global trade and local industry financed its artistic masterpieces and furnished the abundant foods and household goods that Dutch painters immortalized in still lifes and domestic scenes.
- But material abundance and industrial activities also heightened an ancient danger: they added fuel to the flames of urban fires.
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- In the seventeenth century, Amsterdam was likely the wealthiest city in the world.
- Global trade and local industry financed its artistic masterpieces and furnished the abundant foods and household goods that Dutch painters immortalized in still lifes and domestic scenes.
- But material abundance and industrial activities also heightened an ancient danger: they added fuel to the flames of urban fires.
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