- Author
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Emmons, H. W.
- Title
- Growth of Fire Science.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Camridge, MA
- Journal
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Fire Safety Journal,
Vol. 3,
95-106,
1980/1981
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Keywords
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fire growth
|
fire science
|
combustion physics
- Identifiers
- growth of science; fire physics
- Abstract
- The growth of man's knowledge of fire is followed from Paleolithic times to the present. Until 1900, the fundamentals of fire science, mathematics, physics, and chemistry, were in their formative years.