Flame, electricity and the camera; man's progress from the first kindling of fire to the wireless telegraph and the photography of color (1901)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday & McClure co. · leaf 40
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-kindling by Mod- watchiug bamboo stcms driven against em Savages. g^^,j^ other in a storm until flame issued from… … Fig. 4.Fire-making by sawing. Burmese and Malay method. cut, nearly severing the bamboo; after sawing across for awhile, the wood is piercedj and the heated particles fallbelow and ignite (Fig. 4). The Ternate Malays and theTungaras of British North Borneo have improved uponthis by striking a piece…
Fire · Electricity · Color photography
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
