Amazing fact about the invention of the lighter
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Reference: NASA
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lipperhey applied for the first known patent for a telescope in 1608.
After the Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990, scientists discovered that its main mirror was slightly misshapen. Astronauts fixed it with corrective optics in 1993.