![]() ![]() Lighters have been through a lot in nearly 200 years of history. With its “windproof” flames and lifetime guarantee, the Zippo antique lighter became so popular the brand name is now synonymous with the word lighter. Blaisdell would launch the now-iconic Zippo brand. In fact, about 20 years after Ronson lighter was popularized, George G. Ronson lighter models vintage Ronson lighter 1910 Pist-O-Liter and the vintage Ronson lighter 1913 Wonderlite introduced the world to the classic style of antique lighter that you probably associate with the Zippo brand. The first popular flint lighter came in the early 1900’s thanks to workers at a company known as Ronson. Thankfully, it would not be much longer until a safer and more reliable flint lighters were invented. Like the first generation of many inventions, Döbereiner’s lamp was too large, and too dangerous, to ever reach popular use. A flammable gas was exposed to a spark which in turn creates a adjustable flame. Known as Döbereiner’s lamp, this device functions like all of our modern lighters would today. The first mechanical device we would recognize as a lighter today was invented by Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner in 1823. ![]()
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