Citation

Emmons HW. Fire Safety J. 1981; 3(3): 95-106.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, Elsevier Publishing)

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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. During the period 1900 - 1950 the needed basic sciences were further developed and a few fire phenomena were clarified in a scientific way. The developments during these periods are briefly described. The period of rapid growth of fire science, 1950 to the present, is considered in two respects: the developed fire science itself, and the administrative arrangement in the United States that made these developments financially possible.