Flint is a rock that you rub to make fire.
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In addition to being a proper name (first name or surname), it is the name of a city (Flint, Michigan) and its the name of a character in the Dragon Lance novels, a dwarf named Flint Fireforge.
Flint and dried twigs
Firestine is an Americanized version of the German and Jewish name Feuerstein. It is a metonymic occupational name for a seller of flints, or topographic name for someone who lived near an outcrop of flint. Please see the related links below.
Fire was not invented. Fire is a natural phenomenon that people eventually learned first to capture in the wild (in tinder boxes and the like) and later to create at need (rubbing sticks, using flint, etc.)