One of the most important invention every made would be fire. Without fire today's society wouldn't be able to live. We use fire to cook food, make glass and shape metal. Everything that you can think about wouldn't be able to be done without fire because fire creates energy, which you need to make anything. Now the bad side is that fire is a very dangerous substance. Approximately 4,000 people die every year in the United States as the result of fires and anther 22,000 are injured. Fires have burn down buildings and cities in some cases. Fires have causes many tragedy in the United State, since we are so careless when it comes to fire prevention. There have been many tragedies cause by fire in the United States. I chose to write about fire science because it's playing a big role in the United States with the recent fires in California. .
Tuesday November 4, 2003 firefighters just finish containing the biggest and deadliest wildfire in California. These fires in California have burned more than 740,000 acres of brush and timber and destroyed about 3,600 homes, which lend to the killing of at least 22 people. But since we don't live in California I'm going to be writing about a fire tragedy that happened in New York City a long time ago and what we done to prevent fire in buildings. .
An important tragedy in the Manhattan history was the Triangle Shirt Waist Company Fire. The Triangle Waist Company was in many ways a typical sweated factory in the heart of Manhattan. It was located at 23-29 Washington Place. This company had lots of dangerous working conditions, like long hours, unsanitary, and low wages. Most of the people that worked there would be female immigrants. The Asch building was owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris who claimed that the subcontractors where the people who was in charge of the working condition of the employees. Many of the Triangle factory workers were women, some were as young as 15 years old, most of these girls where Italian and European Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States to seek a better life.
Science or Just Imagination? ... However, some of this "science" goes against real science, as we know it. ... Certain areas of the "science" are not possible according to the modern laws of science. ... Whenever a ship fires a laser at another ship in space a sound is heard. ... The audience not being familiar with the laws of science expects a sound to occur when something is blown up or fired. ...
In forest fires remove the brush and the fire will run out fuel. ... Class B fires are liquid fires which consist of flammable liquids and gasses. ... These fire extinguishers have to suppress the fire without reacting to it otherwise the fire will explode. ... Fire engines can respond quickly to fire situations and help control them. ... Fire fighting equipment has advanced quite a lot since science teaches us more about fire and chemical reactions. ...
What is the constant fire? ... The Constant Fire represents the steady debate between science and religion. The debate between science and religion will never fully be over, because there will never be a complete agreement on whether or not science or religion is responsible for something. ... He sees science as superior to religion. ... This book is mostly about science and the human spiritual "constant fire, " as Adam calls it, and the way they build their lives according to what they understand to be real. ...
"From Greece, science spread to China and India" (Krebs Page 5). ... For example how to make fire, making fire would keep everyone warm because you were creating heat and light. They had things to make when using fire therefore; people back in the days had the ability to survive. In about 3000BC people learned how to form candles for light, also how fire" make pottery from clay pots."... Symmetry and beauty play a role on different areas of science" (Miller Page 279). ...
The article is from the Journal of Fire Sciences and not only has great detailed illustrations of the experiment, supporting charts and their findings but very detailed information on how they set-up the experiment, the procedure used, what the team finding were in very scientific terminology. ... I selected this article because I thought it would be interesting to see if the piece would find a better way of dealing with fuel spills resulting from accidents on roadways or maybe a new way for emergency responders to take action in preventing the spread of the fuel or even preventing the poss...
Fire captains need to complete a college course on fire science protection in order to get the job title. Fire marshals help both prevent fires by inspecting buildings for fire hazards and inspect the cause of a fire as in an arson investigation. ... Any applicant should also take a two to four year degree mainly on fire science as well as emergency medical certificates. ... In other positions such as battalion chief you would need an associate's degree in fire science, related field and public administration. ... Firefighters today require at least a high school diploma with a good und...
Studies have shown that no two firearms, even those of the same make and model, will produce the same unique marks on fired bullets and cartridge cases. ... This allows for firearms recovered months or even years after a shooting to be identified as having fired a specific bullet or cartridge case. Tests have been conducted that found that even after firing several hundred rounds through a firearm the last bullet fired could still be identified to the first. ... Bullets collected for comparison to a specific firearm are examined first to see if they are of a caliber that could have been...
"GREEK FIRE" The original Greek fire was an invention used as a weapon of the Eastern Roman Emperors. ... The Greek fire was first time used in the war of seven years. ... On the third attack of the same battle, Greek fire was used again against the Arabs. ... An Emperor, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, said that the recipe for Greek fire had been revealed by an angel to Constantine the Great, and that the earliest chemists called their science "the divine art." ... The secret was in reality never lost, and Greek fire only slowly made way to artillery and gunpow...
