Gunroom
Jan 20, 2021
2 minutes
From the beginning of the Iron Age until the 1830s, the most common method for human beings to make fire was to use a flint and steel ‘strike-a-light’. These were hooked pieces of hardened carbon steel against which a piece of flint was struck. This created a shower of sparks.
A spark is a minute piece of steel that ignites by air friction when it is shaved off by the hard flint.
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