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The cigarette lighter came before the match
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Humanity's technological timeline is frequently wildly out of order. You would completely assume that simple wooden sticks with a flammable tip predated complex metal mechanisms, but you would be entirely wrong. The mechanical cigarette lighter was fully patented years before anyone managed to successfully engineer a reliable friction match.
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