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Assorted reproduction firesteels typical of Roman to medieval period Late 18th-century firetools and bricks from Brittany. A fire striker is a piece of carbon steel from which sparks are struck by the sharp edge of flint, chert or similar rock. [1] [2] [3] It is a specific tool used in fire making.
The steel should be high carbon, non-alloyed, and hardened. Similarly, two pieces of iron pyrite or marcasite when struck together can create sparks. The use of flint in particular became the most common method of producing flames in pre-industrial societies (see also fire striker).
Sheet Iron tinderboxes. English, 18th and early 19th C. Pocket tinderbox with firesteel and flint. This type was used during the Boer War due to a scarcity of matches. A tinderbox, or patch box, is a container made of wood or metal containing flint, firesteel, and tinder (typically charcloth, but possibly a small quantity of dry, finely divided fibrous matter such as hemp), used together to ...
This "Ohio Flint" was traded across the eastern United States, and has been found as far west as the Rocky Mountains and south around the Gulf of Mexico. [5] When struck against steel, flint will produce enough sparks to ignite a fire with the correct tinder, or gunpowder used in weapons, namely the flintlock firing mechanism.
The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70, by David Roberts (1850), shows the city burning. Early thermal weapons, which used heat or burning action to destroy or damage enemy personnel, fortifications or territories, were employed in warfare during the classical and medieval periods (approximately the 8th century BC until the mid-16th century AD).
Charles the Bold, double briquet, struck Bruges 1475. Obverse: Two lions rampant combatant, fire-steel (briquet) above. Reverse: Shield of Burgundy over floriated cross. A briquet (Dutch: vuurijzer) is a Medieval silver coin, first introduced by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy in 1474 (2nd Emission – Coinage Act of 27 October 1474).
Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian, or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls, and flushwork decoration.
Throughout the medieval period, these technical innovations, and traditional techniques coexisted. Their application depended on the time period and geographical region. Water power in medieval mining and metallurgy was introduced well before the 11th century, but it was only in the 11th century that it was widely applied.