People believed that asbestos was salamander fur dating back to Aristotle and Pliney the Elder. https://www.wired.com/2014/08/fantastically-wrong-homicidal-sal

People believed that asbestos was salamander fur dating back to Aristotle and Pliney the Elder. https://www.wired.com/2014/08/fantastically-wrong-homicidal-salamander/ https://www.wired.com/2014/08/fantastically-wrong-homicidal-... I first learned about this doing background reading of _Fahrenheit 451_ where the firemen's logo is the burning salamander as well as their fire truck being called a salamander. http://self.gutenberg.org/eBooks/WPLBN0100000519-Fahrenheit-451-by-Bradbury-Ray.aspx http://self.gutenberg.org/eBooks/WPLBN0100000519-Fahrenheit-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_salamander_in_popular_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_salamander_in_popula... There's also a popular cooking appliance used in commercial kitchens which is basically a stand-alone broiler that's referred to as a salamander,