Amazing fact about the invention of the lighter
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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- Who wrote the first computer program?
“Ada Lovelace wrote what is considered the first computer program in the 1840s, for Charles Babbage's proposed Analytical Engine.”
Reference: Computer History Museum
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The energy consumption needs of technology
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Who was Ada Lovelace's father?
Ada Lovelace's father was the poet Lord Byron.