Fire making in  Ancient_Egypt
The journey of discovering fire from the drill to the hydrogen bomb
The journey of discovering fire began in the early primitive times, perhaps the first human discoveries at all, and the journey began with the process of friction that took place between the leaves and branches of trees or touched by a spark of lightning, and the fire mysteriously caught fire, as is happening now in forest fires in Australia and America
The primitive man knew the importance of fire; when it was burning, it dissipated before his eyes the frightening darkness of the night, as it caused the escape of harmful forest animals and insects, and gave him warmth on cold winter days, and helped him prepare his food that was tastier and easier to digest.
Because of the impossibility of igniting the fire and the difficulty of obtaining it in some places, such as humid forests or very cold deserts, the primitive man was keen to keep a fire burning even during his travels and tours. For example, if a visitor lights his pipe or cigarette from his host’s fire, he must return the fire to him and put out the pipe or cigar before the visit ends and he leaves.
Over the years, and since discovering fire, man has been inventing ways to obtain this valuable, useful element. In the past, fire drills have spread throughout the world, which depends on the friction of a piece of wood with another, and they are the first real tools that we know, although some scientists said that humans control fire since Lower antiquity.
It is certain that the ancient Egyptians, since prehistoric times, have invented the drill – the machine for making fires – a unique device similar to which was found in several tombs, the most important of which is the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
In the attached video, we see a three-dimensional model of a drill for setting the fire, one of the most interesting pieces in the group of household tools found in the tomb of “Tutankhamun”. The ancient Egyptians used this unique tool to light the fire by rotating the wooden sticks manually or using an arc with Belts at great speed inside twelve holes drilled in the ignition plate.
Inside these holes was found a quantity of resin for the possibility of making a spark by friction to be picked up by the wick, and the wooden stick tops a separate head to make it easier to control it during rotation.
Centuries after the discovery of fire, man discovered sulfur and phosphorous. In 1820 he knew the easy way to light fires with matches, continued developments and improvements, and lighters appeared to ignite by friction and gasoline, or by electric spark and gas, and finally knew the kindling of fire by splitting the fire atom in the atomic bomb and hydrogen.
Aren’t all bombs and cannonballs balls of blazing fire?