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 42
s light their pipes with flintand steel (Fig. 5), while thepriests still use the bow-drill.The Roman Catholic Church,in its blessing of the new fireon Easter even, carries us backyet farther than to the bow-drill. The officiating prie-required to strike the spark froma stone. A long and weary path,… … 5. ■-idians.Kansas and Nebraska.U. S. National Museum. 20 FLAME AND ITS FIRST USES later steps in that path have been taken through findingsubstances more and more combustible — first of all, theiighter and more resinous woods; then, sulphur; and lastof all, phosphorus. The shred of pine in the…
Fire · Electricity · Color photography
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