Candle

Ancient · Household · 700 BCE

TL;DR

Candle - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Candle - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Oil lamp

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Candle:

Argand lamp Sperm oil and spermaceti candle Candle clock

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Path Dependence

Related Inventions

Oil lamp Sperm oil and spermaceti candle Candle clock Argand lamp

Tags

Lighting

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