Flame, electricity and the camera; man's progress from the first kindling of fire to the wireless telegraph and the photography of color (1900)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday & McClure co. · leaf 45
s as toeduce fire in but eight seconds. Nature in showering hints upon inventors has notneglected the fire-maker. A suggestion for an original mode of fire-making may have lain in Fire-kindiing by Mod- watching bamboo stems driven against em savages. each other in a storm until flame issued from… … jdfek.: Fig. 4.Fire-making by sawing. Burmese and Malay method. cut, nearly severing the bamboo; after sawing across for awhile, the wood is pierced, and the heated particles tallbelow and ignite (Fig. 4). The Ternate Malays and theTungaras of British North Borneo have improved uponthis by striking…
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