Reliable Pocket Lamp, 1890
Manufacturer: Henry W. Maybaum
Name: Reliable Pocket Lamp
Type: gasoline lighter pistons
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1890
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 100-250
This is a unique instance - one of the world's first pocket lighters, patented in 1890, even before the invention of the flint. Iskra made it a special tape to fulminate Pistone (rattlesnake acid salts), and with its help was ignited by a wick soaked with gasoline.
12.06.2010 
Tags: without flint, Pistone Categories: 1890, Pocket Lamp, USA
8 comment (-ev)
CSO - OGO!
That is, now it does not work? the tape had to be changed periodically?
Of course I had to change - as usual in toy pistol caps, for example, the disposable tape :) And one only photography is very difficult to judge its working condition - should certainly fumble this design :)
Yeah! cool))))
Similarly, cool! One man alone was not trying to "tame" the fire.
How is it "before the invention of flint" ??? What about the gun flint, flint there for 300 years been used!
The shock-flint castle used mineral flint, rather than train tserrievy alloy.
Wow! Right after the artifact zazhigalkostroeniya!
Write a comment