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 ignited wick soaked with gasoline.

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Ray-o-lite, 1920

Name: Ray-o-lite
Type: methanol catalyst Lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1920
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 20-60

This cigarette lighter runs on catalytic principle discovered by German chemist Johann Wolfgang Dёbereynerom in 1823: immersion frames with balls on the platinum black wire in compartment with felt impregnated with methanol, platinum causes a chemical reaction, heat and inflammation of methanol vapor.

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