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English: No. 4. Fire saw. Strip of bamboo drawn across a section of bamboo. Dyaks
of Borneo and other Malays 178,152 No. 5. Fire thong. Rattan thong drawn over a grooved piece of wood. Dyaks of Borneo 178,152 No. 6. Fire plow. Blunt stick worked along a groove in a lower stick. Polynesians 178,152 No. 7. Fire drill. Slender rod twirled between the hands upon a lower stick having a cavity with slot. Indians of the United States and widely diffused in the world 176,353 No. 8. Fire drill. Rod held in a socket and gyrated by means of a cord. The lower piece of wood has a cavity with slot, opening upon a shelf. Eskimos of Alaska 127,644 No. 9. Fire drill. Rod held in a socket and gyrated with a bow and cord. Lower piece with cavities on a central groove. Eskimos of Alaska 48,078 No. 10. Fire drill. Pump drill used specially for sacred fire. Iroquois Indians, Canada. No. 11. Strike-alight. Flint and iron pyrites struck together as the ordinary flint and steel. Eskimos of Alaska 178,154 No. 12. Strike-a-light. Flint and steel and box for holding flint, steel, and tinder. Sulphur-tipped splint ignited from the tinder. England, 130,436 No. 13. Strike-a-light. Bamboo tube and striker of pottery used as flint and steel. Two boxes for tinder. Malay. No. 14. Tinder pistol. Gunlock adapted for throwing sparks into tinder. England 175,712 No. 15. Strike-a-light. Combination of flint, steel, tinder, and extinguislier, for carrying in the pocket. Spain 1 178,155 No. 16. Fire syringe. Cylinder with closely fitting piston bearing tinder. Driv- ing the piston down smartly kindles the tinder. Siamese and Malays -1 176,091 No. 17. Lens. Used for producing fire by focusing sunlight upon tinder. Ancient Greeks 178,151 No. 18. Hydrogen lamp. Hydrogen gas is made, to play upon spongy platinum, causing it to glow, Germany, 1824 165,440 No. 19. Match light box. Bottle of sulphuric acid, into which splints tipped with chlorate of potash and sugar were dipped. Vienna, 1809 151,711 No. 20. Matches. Various kinds of phosphorus matches 178,156 No. 21. Electric gas lighter. Cylinder containing a small dynamo run by pres- sure of the finger, producing sparks between the points at the upper end of the tube. United States, 1882 200,512 |
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| Source | Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl. |
| Author | United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C. |
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