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  2. Fire making - Wikipedia

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    Fire making, fire lighting or fire craft is the process of artificially starting a fire. It requires completing the fire triangle , usually by heating tinder above its autoignition temperature . Fire is an essential tool for human survival and the use of fire was important in early human cultural history since the Lower Paleolithic .

  3. Bow drill - Wikipedia

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    Bow drill being used to make a fire. Bow drills with green jasper bits were used in Mehrgarh between the 4th and 5th millennium BC to drill holes into lapis lazuli and carnelian. Similar drills were found in other parts of the Indus Valley civilization and Iran one millennium later. [6]

  4. Glossary of firelighting - Wikipedia

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    Firelighting (also called firestarting, fire making, or fire craft) is the process of starting a fire artificially. Fire was an essential tool in early human cultural development. The ignition of any fire, whether natural or artificial, requires completing the fire triangle, usually by initiating the combustion of a suitably flammable material.

  5. Fire drill (tool) - Wikipedia

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    A fire drill, sometimes called fire-stick, is a device to start a fire by friction between a rapidly rotating wooden rod (the spindle or shaft) and a cavity on a stationary wood piece (the hearth or fireboard). [1] [2] [3]

  6. Hand drill - Wikipedia

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    Hand drills have been used by many primitive societies as a fire drill to start a fire. [1] It is still often learned as a useful survival skill. A hand drill could also be used as a tool for drilling holes in hard materials such as wood, stone, or bone. For either use, the hands must also exert downward pressure while spinning the rod.

  7. Feather stick - Wikipedia

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    Feather stick ready to be ignited. A feather stick (sometimes referred to as a fuzz stick) is a length of wood which has been shaved to produce a cluster of thin curls protruding from the wood.

  8. Fire piston - Wikipedia

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    Modern replica of a fire piston made from cocobolo. Fire pistons in Southeast Asia were variously constructed of bamboo, wood, metal, ivory, bone, and horn. The main tube was typically around 3.25 in (8.3 cm) long and 0.5 in (1.3 cm) in diameter, with a bore size around 0.375 in (0.95 cm). [7]

  9. File:The Primitive Baptist (serial) (IA ...

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