What Do You Think Was Invented First A Match Or A Lighter?

[Static_In_The_Attic]

A Match

A Lighter

[Rosexøxø]

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.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

It could be the match or it could be the lighter & some say one thing & others could say something else. Stay tuned or feel free to look it up.

[Rosexøxø]

Hey, if my answers offend you I can stop altogether lol. I don’t mean to ruin the fun or spoil things. Following inferences, I said match. 🤷‍♀️

We all gotta evolve in my opinion.

[Rosexøxø]

Fun question :]

[Static_In_The_Attic]

A question is a question & I’m not offended & although you spoiled the fun & looked it up I should of stated somewhere in the question no cheating. It’s ok, life moves on. Hahaha.

[Rosexøxø]

Oh my gosh my heart ❤️ lol I apologize. I can be oh too serious at times. Lesson learned and I wasn't even spot on with my logic.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

It’s all in good fun & no need to apologize & as for your ❤️ I’m sure it’s a lovely one. I have to pull up the history on lighters. I think the earlier ones didn’t have any fluid.

[Rosexøxø]

🥺🥹🥹🥲😭

You’re precious. Thank you for sharing. I’m not sure which lighters came first; I think I’d need to read more to figure that one out for sure.

[Rosexøxø]

I thought it had always been the butane gas ones and then on to liquids? But this may not be the end all answer

[Screenwriter]

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.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

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.

[Likes2drive]

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

[Static_In_The_Attic]

I think the matches as well & do you think self striking matches or books came first.

[Likes2drive]

Self striking

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Oopsie not self striking, strike anywhere.

[Paris13]

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[Static_In_The_Attic]

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[Paris13]

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[Paris13]

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[Static_In_The_Attic]

It’s funny about points & after I reached master it’s like I don’t care about points anymore, maybe we need a Super Master or something else maybe a Professor Level.

[Paris13]

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[laly520]

lighters were invented before matches! the first lighter was invented in 1823 while the match was created in 1826

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Did you know that before you looked it up?

[laly520]

nope
I used to think matches were invented first

[Rosexøxø]

I am totally beyond surprised lol but even if this is true. The concept of grinding sticks/ wood was there before handheld lighters 👀

[laly520]

I was surprised as well lol

[Static_In_The_Attic]

@Rosexøxø As for matches I wonder if match books or self striking matches came first.

[Rosexøxø]

lol this feels like the first time they made a complex invention first and THEN the simpler one. #mindblown and #litquestion #punintended 😆

Like the one with all the gadgets was constructed and then a chemist made a chemical that could be swiped with friction. That’s incredulous! Thanks for the fact sharee

[Static_In_The_Attic]

@Rosexøxø Did you know the electric chair was invented by a dentist? I hope it’s wasn’t invented by accident. Oopsie.

[Rosexøxø]

😭😂😆 I just thought of how the first chainsaws were used for pregnancies: c-sections

[Rosexøxø]

Those two facts are just haunting lol I need a minute. Humans are incredulous!

[Static_In_The_Attic]

@Rosexøxø Oh Shit! Ouch that had to hurt. Hopefully it was a small chainsaw? Nowadays I’m surprised that some women don’t have zippers especially the ones that can’t keep their legs closed.

[Rosexøxø]

Ohhhhh burrnnn 🔥 🤣😆

That was a good one @Static_In_The_Attic

Lmao but tbh I vote we make one but for both genders just because everyone is wild. I heard of some chastity belt- like once- and still don’t get it, but maybe that helps people? Or is that just mythical stuff? I honestly don’t know lol

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Actually you're correct for thinking matches was made first. Except it just looks so different and wasn't named "matches" before.

[ChicoFromThe305]

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.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

If it’s the lighter why did they make matches? Maybe they were cheaper?

[Rosexøxø]

Yeah but what about butane?

[Rosexøxø]

Lighters need fluid to keep them burning don’t they? Or to ignite?

[Static_In_The_Attic]

@Rosexøxø We are going to have to research lighters because it’s possible earlier lighter’s didn’t have any fluid.

[ChicoFromThe305]

The first lighters were probably build by cavemen hitting flint with steel makes sparks then they probably used the sparks to make fire, those were the first lighters, then humans added gas and when you click the flint and steel and mix it with the gas makes a flame but before it was sparks on wood or sparks on dead grass and plants and they made fire that way, it was only advanced to what we know of today lighters.

[Rosexøxø]

@Static_In_The_Attic @ChicoFromThe305

Yeah but

Yeah but

Two sticks and friction HAD to come before flint and steel

Rightttt?

😭

[ChicoFromThe305]

I guess that all depends on what the red part of the match is made of and how when they made it

[Fireguy17]

matches were invented in 1805, lighters were invented in 1823.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

As for matches were the self striking ones invented first or match books?

[Fireguy17]

wooden "safety" matches, like you see in the cowboy movies.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

I’m going to have to research matches a little more.

[Sargentcaptain]

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.

[CozyCoffin]

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.

[Sevenpointfive]

i think sulphur dioxide was found before butane

[exitseven]

The lighter. I remember that Fred Flintstone had one.

[NamerOfStars]

I actually know this one; it's the lighter.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Speaking of lighters & you might know this one. As for the early lighters did they have liquid fuel or not? Also I hear if you light a lighter in space the flame is blue.

[NamerOfStars]

Here's the bigger question: what SHAPE would the flame be? My guess is spherical, but I obviously haven't been able to test it.

[NathanDavis]

the "lamp"

[Static_In_The_Attic]

I like the lamp from A Christmas Story…

[AviatorTom]

Rubbing two stones together, creating a spark, actually came first.

[FunkyMonkee]

REALLY? You don't know?

[Static_In_The_Attic]

I know however I found a few different answers.

[Twalli]

It's not really a thought, I know matches came first.

[XXblack88]

A match

[Static_In_The_Attic]

As for matches do you think match books or self striking matches were invented first?

[XXblack88]

🤔 match book? I never heard of self-striking matches.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Oopsie I mean strike anywhere not self striking.

[XXblack88]

lol ok still never heard of it

[strateguy632]

matched

[Shgshshdg]

Match