tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696514341454100393.post7498540767725501800..comments2024-02-14T10:14:17.831+00:00Comments on Edinburgh Fire Research Centre BLOG: Photographs of early ‘organised’ fire testsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696514341454100393.post-72383316858881536492012-05-12T12:02:06.684+01:002012-05-12T12:02:06.684+01:00These researchers for the 1902 test above used a ‘...These researchers for the 1902 test above used a ‘pneumatic’ pyrometer which would have been placed just below the floor system to measure the ‘gas’ temperature. This pyrometer system relied on inserting a platinum tube into a furnace and the effect cooling extracted air would have been used to measure a temperature change. This method wasn’t popular, and the platinum-rhodium thermocouple began to be the tool of choice for temperature measurement in fire tests shortly after these tests. Changes would come to severities and control of the tests with standardization, but yes after that, have largely remained the same afterwards for the last 100 years or so.John Adam Galeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08693696136629173336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696514341454100393.post-16919027458894921842012-05-09T18:35:03.034+01:002012-05-09T18:35:03.034+01:00Thanks John for digging this out and sharing it. A...Thanks John for digging this out and sharing it. As you like to say, we need to learn history so mistakes are not repeated (specially important for the History of Engineering = History of Technology+Science). It looks to me like modern fire/furnace tests are pretty much the same as those in 1890... but run on gas instead of coal, the rest remaining mostly the same? That is not encoraging.<br />I am curious to know more about the pyrometers they use back them? Do you have information of this?Guillermo Reinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com