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The Fire Piston — Great Old New Idea

Posted on September 27, 2009 by JTHatsJanuary 8, 2018

How any indigenous inventor could come up with this concept without knowing the principles of compression and hydraulics is beyond imagination–except that many so-called primitive cultures use blowguns, and are interested in heat

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Posted in Firestarters, Survival | Tagged blast match, desert survival, fire piston, fire starter, firemaker, firemaking, spark ignitors, tinder
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