Amazing fact about the invention of the lighter
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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- How did steam engines lead to thermodynamics?
“French engineer Sadi Carnot's 1824 study of how efficient steam engines could be helped launch the science of thermodynamics.”
Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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