There are three things you can watch forever: how fire burns, how water flows and how the others work, and do the crowd of onlookers at the fire, unable to tear his eyes from what was happening. And all because the fire really has a magical effect, attracting attention. No wonder that at all times the fire power used in various rituals. For example, the burning alive of one of the most painful forms of execution in ancient times. And in our day the culmination of the Shrovetide - the burning of an effigy, a symbol of the departure of winter and arrival of spring.
It now will not be easy to start a fire, struck a match and finish, and in ancient times, fire was gold, was extracted with great difficulty, and it was much easier to maintain a fire than to breed it again. And Woe to those who do not keep track of fire, because according to the laws of the time, only death could atone. So the fire, in the form of fire, supported for decades.
About how there was fire, today we can only guess. According to one version, the lightning struck the tree and it caught fire, so for the first time people met with fire. Then, most likely, with a burning branch learned how to carry fire for some distance. And already then began to make fire using wood chips, into which is inserted a stick, next put moss and rotated his wand between his palms as long as the moss began to smolder.
Later came the flint – it is this iron plate, flint, and wick to the wick began to smolder, it was necessary to strike the record on the flint.
The match was invented relatively recently in the nineteenth century, but in present time the remote places of our planet there are tribes that are still at the stage of development when the fire is produced by friction or impact each other in various subjects.
Initially fire was used to form smoke, which got rid of the annoying insects, and then appreciate the advantages of food cooked on the fire.
The fire's hot gases and plasma emitted in the combustion process combustible material by chemical reaction or by the interaction of high voltage and combustible material. Fire can be man's best friend and worst enemy. Recently, a very popular was the so-called fire-show. A fire show is not just entertainment, but serious art is dangerous and exciting. The fire used for lighting, warming, cooking, feeding signals, protection from wild animals etc. But also has great destructive power, in the form of uncontrolled combustion process of a fire.
In case of a sudden fire in the apartment you must have a serviceable fire extinguisher. If at hand there was no such, you must know that to put out the fire in three ways:
- To clean that caught fire.
- To stop the access of oxygen, for example, cover the object of the fire with a blanket.
- To eliminate the heat, to lower his temperature with water, sand or foam.
Follow fire safety rules and remember that the smoke without fire does not happen!