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  2. Fire making - Wikipedia

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    Fire making, fire lighting or fire craft is the process of artificially starting a fire. It requires completing the fire triangle , usually by heating tinder above its autoignition temperature . Fire is an essential tool for human survival and the use of fire was important in early human cultural history since the Lower Paleolithic .

  3. Fire striker - Wikipedia

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    From the Iron Age forward, until the invention of the friction match in the early 1800s by John Walker, the use of flint and steel was a common method of fire lighting. Percussion fire-starting was prevalent in Europe during ancient times, the Middle Ages and the Viking Age. [3] [6]

  4. Match - Wikipedia

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    An igniting match. A match is a tool for starting a fire.Typically, matches are made of small wooden sticks or stiff paper.One end is coated with a material that can be ignited by friction generated by striking the match against a suitable surface. [1]

  5. Friction in business isn’t always bad. Timely intervention ...

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    The authors make an example of Google’s Sergey Brin, who rushed Google Glass to market in 2012, only to have it collapse under the weight of hardware and software problems, bad battery life ...

  6. Control of fire by early humans - Wikipedia

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    The control of fire by early humans was a critical technology enabling the evolution of humans. Fire provided a source of warmth and lighting, protection from predators (especially at night), a way to create more advanced hunting tools, and a method for cooking food.

  7. Fire drill (tool) - Wikipedia

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    The heat eventually turns the wood at the point of contact into charcoal, which is ground to a powder by the friction, that collects into the "V" notch. Continuing operation eventually ignites the charcoal dust producing a tiny ember, which can be used to start a fire in a " tinder bundle" (a nest of stringy, fluffy, and combustible material).

  8. Bow drill - Wikipedia

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    An image of a wooden bow drill designed for fire starting. The spindle can be held into a fixed frame, or by a hand-held block (the hand piece or thimble) with a hole into which the top of the shaft is inserted. Some lubricant should be used to reduce friction between these two parts, otherwise, it could lead to some trouble when doing it too fast.

  9. New book details Biden-Obama frictions and says Harris ... - AOL

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    A new book about Joe Biden portrays the president as someone whose middle-class upbringing helped foster a resentment of intellectual elitism that shaped his political career and sometimes caused ...