00:00Boeotian flamethrower. This was one of the first prototypes of a flamethrower.
00:04It was used in the Peloponnesian war during the siege of the Athenian city of Delium.
00:09The device was a long hollow log barrel reinforced with iron.
00:12Inside there was a narrow channel through which a stream of air from blacksmith's bellows would pass.
00:17At the front end, containers with flammable materials were attached.
00:21Resin, tar, sulfur, charcoal.
00:24When the bellows pumped in air, the mixture started to burn intensely and shut out flames.
00:28The Boeotians brought this flamethrower and burned part of the city's wooden fortifications,
00:32after which the Athenians were defeated.
