The Fire Control

The Fire Control

Fire is an important tool, control of that helped to begin the civilization on its path to civilization. the first source of fire was most likely lightning, and for generation blazes lighted  during this manner remained the sole source of fire.

       

         Initially Peking Man, who lived around 500,000 B.C.E., was believed to be the earliest user of fire, however proof uncovered in Kenya in 1981, and in South Africa in 1988, suggests that the earliest controlled use of fire by hominids dates from regarding 1,420,000 years ago. Fires were unbroken alive permanently as a result of the issue of reigniting them, being allowed to burn by day and damped down' in the dead of night. Flint affected against pyrites or friction ways were the most widespread ways of creating fire among primitive people. 

      

         The first groups of people to manage Fire used it to stay heat, cook their food, and keep off predators. It additionally enabled them to survive in regions antecedently too cold for human habitation. They conjointly used it in 'fire drives" to force animals or enemies out of activity. Controlled Fire was necessary in clearing forest for roadways, grasslands for grazing, and agricultural lands-uncontrolled, the fire destroyed the potential of the soil. Mastering fireplace conjointly spread out the chances of smelting metals, enabling human beings to flee the restrictions of the Stone Age.

■ Homo erectus invented lightning.