Testaments to the Boom Times to Come (Posts tagged FIRE)

antiquesfreaks

nautical history friends help

nothwell

there’s a glass thing aboard wooden whaling ships where it’s like a little crystal they put in the ceiling to let light in belowdecks

what the fuck is it called

it looks kind of like this

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focsle

Deck prism!

nothwell

#they’re so amazing

YES! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

focsle

Sure thing! I remember being so surprised at HOW much light they brought into a space, when I first saw them in action.

[ID: photo of closely clustered ship bunks, lit by an overhead prism. /end ID]

The yellow light is artificial but the blue is from the deck prism, on a cloudy day.

lethalice

A variation of this was also used by european artisans in the form of a water filled glass sphere that focused the surrounding light

antiquesfreaks

WHAT.

house-of-crows

Oh yeah! They made similar necklaces too called Pools Of Light that you ABSOLUTELY had to keep locked in a box any time it was not actually On Your Person because they can make things burst into flames :D

Ken how is this post a never-ending trove of treasures ! jewelry lights fire

memory-for-trifles

cinematv

THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021) dir. David Lowery

The Green Knight David Lowery fire

sonictoaster

Anonymous asked:

did u know that fire is shaped the way that it is bc of gravity and if it werent for gravityitd be an orb

bunjywunjy answered:

yep! here’s what a match looks like burning in microgravity, it’s WILD

fursasaida

I got curious and looked into this a bit and so I can offer you all this magnificent sentence:

“Peter is one-of-a-kind,” offers Richard Axelbaum, a frequent collaborator and the Stifel & Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science at Washington University in St. Louis. “He’s so creative at applying the knowledge he’s acquired over the years and using it to inform experiments to study flames in microgravity.”

that sure does sound like a unique type of guy, Richard, thank you. let’s go now to the guy himself, Peter Sunderland, to see what he has to say:

“Astronauts love fire,” Sunderland says—meaning that, in general, they’re all quite worried about it and keenly interested in the outcomes of flammability studies.

yeah that tracks

~*don't you think maybe they are the same thing*~love and attention?~** fire space science oh and cordially: whåt

lipstickmata

fire art Paul Benney

amelodie

merulae

“From the first smouldering taper to the elegant lanterns whose light reverberated around eighteenth-century courtyards and from the mild radiance of these lanterns to the unearthly glow of the sodium lamps that line the Belgian motorways, it has all been combustion. Combustion is the hidden principle behind every artefact we create. The making of a fish-hook, manufacture of a china cup, or production of a television programme, all depend on the same process of combustion. Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away. For the time being, our cities still shine through the night, and the fire still spreads.”

— W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

writing fire lights W.G. Sebald