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Invention Of The Match
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Invention of the Match
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Either by getting fire from a naturally occuring fire (eg lightning strike causes grass/bush fire) and keeping coals from it to start another; or by creating their own using the heat from friction (rubbing sticks together)
The fire kept burning at home (by candles) was only one of the means of having a source of combustion. Before matches, people got to be very good with tinder and spark-creating flints and steel file surfaces. The same was applied to fire ar...
Matches have been around for a while. They were invented by the ancient Chinese. But they didn't come into wide use in the western world until 1805. Before that, people used tinderboxes, which contained flint, steel, and small pieces of fla...
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It made carrying 'fire' around affordable and easy. At first it was expensive, then very inexpensive and everyone could start a fire easily.
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