Archive category «Pocket Lamp»
Reliable Pocket Lamp, 1890
Manufacturer: Henry W. Maybaum
Title: Reliable Pocket Lamp
Type: gasoline lighter Pistone
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1890
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 100-250
This is a unique instance of the - one of the world's first pocket lighters, patented in 1890, even before the invention of the flint. Spark it made a special tape with fulminate Pistone (salts rattlesnake acid), and with that ignited the wick soaked with gasoline.
12.06.2010 
Tags: without flint , Pistone Topics: 1890 , Pocket Lamp , USA 
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