Reliable Pocket Lamp, 1890
Manufacturer: Henry W. Maybaum
Title: Reliable Pocket Lamp
Type: gasoline lighter Pistone
Material: copper, brass
Year of release: 1890
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 100-250
This is a unique specimen - one of the world's first pocket lighters, patented in 1890, before the invention of flint. Spark in it made a special tape to fulminate Pistone (rattlesnake acid salts), and use it to set on fire with gasoline soaked wick.
12.06.2010 
Tags: without flint , percussion caps Topics: 1890 , Pocket Lamp , USA
8 comment (s)
CSO - CSO!
That is, now it does not work? the tape had to be changed periodically?
Well of course had to be changed - as well as the usual caps in toy pistols, for example, this tape is a one-off :) And one only photographs is very difficult to judge its working condition - should certainly pick at this design :)
Yeah! cool))))
Similarly, cool! One man is not only trying to "tame" the fire.
How is it "before the invention of the flint '?? And how flintlocks, there flint was used for 300 years!
In the flintlock used mineral flint, and not rail-tserrievy alloy.
Wow! Just did artifact zazhigalkostroeniya!
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