Amazing fact about the invention of the lighter
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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- What was the first practical steam engine used for?
“Thomas Newcomen's steam engine, introduced in 1712, was mainly used to pump water out of flooded mines.”
Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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