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 
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Ray-o-lite, 1920
Title: Ray-o-lite
Type: methanol catalytic Lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1920
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 20-60
This cigarette lighter is working on catalytic principle discovered by German chemist Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner in 1823: immersion frames with platinum black balls on the wires in the office with felt, treated with methanol, platinum causes a chemical reaction, heating and ignition of methanol vapors.
08.12.2009 Tags: without flint , with a removable lid , chemical Topics: 1920 , Ray-o-lite , USA 7 comment (s)
