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 46
to conquer and hold anoutpost twenty degrees nearer the pole than any otherhuman settlement (Fig. 6). Whether the first explorers had caves to fall back uponor not, fire was indispen-sable to them. A burningbrand cleared their pathsthrough forests otherwiseimpenetrable. When theysingled out a tree… … Fig. 6. Eskimo lamp from Mackenzie River. U. S. National Museum. DAY LENGTHENED 25 than stone. The tree felled, its trunk was softened andshaped, again by fire, into a canoe for voyages too daringfor any raft. Yet worthier service lay In lifting the dreary pall ofnight. Until the savage could…
Fire · Electricity · Color photography
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