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What Do You Think Was Invented First A Match Or A Lighter?
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The tool that is simpler in make up and not as simple in function.
In this case the match.
Besides it resembles sticks of wood 🪵 used for starting and fueling fires and in many old movies you’ll see matches used before you see any lighters. Fortunately enough, you’ll see many MANYYY cigarettes and lightings because for some reason this is what made certain movies or scenes lol It was either seen as cool back then, or just normal.
If I’m wrong, so be.
But everything in my reason and memory bank is saying match stick. Then lighter.
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Ancient peoples used flint stones, which in my thoughts are equivalent to "lighters."
They created sparks and ignited mosses, or other dry tinder, which was then transferred to wood or coals to create a big fire. Matches are an 1826 invention. Very late to the game.
And modern lighters, which use gasoline or compressed natural gases, couldn't exist until oil was drilled in the 19th century. Gasoline is byproduct of oil, and natural gas is found along with oil in certain strata.
First oil was found in the 1870s in Pennsylvania. So even later. But flint has existed forever and humans knew how to use it at least 300,000 years ago.
By the idea, it would be matches. Because the earliest way of making fire was through friction. Except the word "matches" didn't come out that time. People used sticks or flint and steel or something flammable along with it which pretty much has the same mechanics with matches before lighters came out. Even if it says lighters are made first before matches, there is still a chance that other non English natives use an ancient word for matches in their language that could be named after the fire starter they used to make fire before.
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I think the matches otherwise why would would we need matches if the lighter was first? Although the concept of the lighter was sort of there when we used flint against steal with gunpowder as a fuel to fire a gun we never used it in a portable form with liquid until much later even though we had lamps with whale oil as fuel
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I Will Guess First---Match... Lighters were invented before matches! The first lighter was invented in 1823 while the match was created in 1826. lol!!! I Get No MHO. xxoo
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lighters were invented before matches! the first lighter was invented in 1823 while the match was created in 1826
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The lighter, it's just flint and steel, a match is a chemical that they dip a stick of wood into and I feel like flint and steel came before red flamey chemical.
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matches were invented in 1805, lighters were invented in 1823.
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I imagine it would be the lighter. A match requires a really good substance at the tip that has to be engineered. Lighters have a rock and some fuel.
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Despite being credited to John Walker in 1826, British physicist Robert Boyle technically created the first friction match in 1680 by coating coarse paper in phosphorous, and a splinter of wood in sulphur. When the wood was drawn through the folded paper, it burst into flames. A German chemist named Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner in 1823 invented the lighter, often called Döbereiner's lamp.
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i think sulphur dioxide was found before butane
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The lighter. I remember that Fred Flintstone had one.
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I actually know this one; it's the lighter.
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the "lamp"
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Rubbing two stones together, creating a spark, actually came first.
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REALLY? You don't know?
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It's not really a thought, I know matches came first.
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A match
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