Online Doctorate Degree/PHD in Fire sciences

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The rapid combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and usually accompanied by flame. Aeons, lightning was the only source of fire. Early controlled use of fire seems to date to C. 1420000 years ago, but not to C. 7000 BC did Neolithic people acquire reliable methods Firemaking, including hard wood drill friction and sparks from a flint struck against pyrites. The fire was originally used for heat, light and cooking; Later it was used in the fire drives in hunting and warfare, as well as forest clearing undergrowth to facilitate hunting. The first farmers used fire to clear fields and ash for the production of fertilizers, such "slash and burn" cultivation is still widely used today. Fire has also been used for firing pottery and for the smelting of bronze (c. 3000 BC) and later iron (ca. 1000 BC). Most of the modern history of technology and science can be characterized as a permanent increase in the amount of energy available through the fire and put under the control of man.