Forging the World: How Fire Shapes Human Progress | FD Engineering

Forging the World: How Fire Shapes Human Progress | Masters of Engineering | FD EngineeringExplosive Engineers - Having a Blast at the Job: https://youtu.be/t3XTxPwiHkELightning strikes the planet a hundred times every second. The fires it unleashes were once like gifts from heaven for early man. Indeed, the need to domesticate fire, to master it, to possess it, has set the pace for mankind's progress. Capable of heating, cooking, lighting, melting, forging, carrying or propelling, fire has been the instrument of every conquest. From prehistoric fires to the furnaces of the first…