The mystery of Greek fire continues to baffle historians millennia after its creation. Not only did the 7th-century weapon ...

You will be forgiven if, upon completing Bruce Holsinger's novel "The Invention of Fire," you decide that the author spent his early years in late 14th-century London, later to be magically ...

Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud Peter Watson. HarperCollins Publishers, $29.95 (822pp) ISBN 978-0-06-621064-3 ...

George C. Hale served as the Chief of the Kansas City, Missouri Fire Department, for 31 years. At the end of the 19th century, he revolutionized firefighting with his more than 60 patented ...