Fire, 590,000BC

Fire, like air or water, is nothing new but the ability to control it is, Well quite new. Evidence suggests early man used fire more than a million years ago, but the earliest signs that we has learned to command it date from nearly 800,000 years ago, Archaeologists at a dig in israel in 2004 discovered clusters of burnt flint tools, evidence of hearths or campfires, The ability to start fire in a flash only came with the invention of the match in 1827.