The origin of the cigarette lighter

2016.5.6

Lighters are no strangers, especially for boys, and collecting an antique cigarette lighter is an even more ostentatious capital. How many people knew about the cigarette lighter?

Many people see the United States as the birthplace of the lighters, and in fact, the tinted gadgets originated in Britain.

In 1917, during the first world war, the British tobacco shop appeared a strange poster, a soldier cigarette in mouth, with one hand holding the rifle, another hand is holding a meeting in a blaze of gadgets. The man who did not know what he thought had been introduced by the British army was, in fact, a lighter that was already well known to all.

The lighter was invented by a young Londoner named Alfred dunhill. At that time, he learned that soldiers on the front line wanted to smoke but often because the match was damp. So he decided to develop a lighter that was easy to carry without dampness, and later, with the help of a chemist, he developed a lighter that consisted of a metal shell and a roof structure. The lighters had been improved until 1924, when most of the frontline smokers had not been able to use it, and the first world war was over. http://blog.51will.com

At present, China has become a major producer and exporter of electronic cigarette lighters, which account for 70% of the world's total output.

The lighter went slowly and gradually developed into a fashion item.

ZIPPO's popularity among young people has proved that lighter has become more synonymous with fashion than just the use of fire.

Having ZIPPO means having fashion, having ZIPPO is avant-garde...

The lighter

Small fire device. It is mainly used for smoking and fire, and also for cooking and other fires. The anti-wind, anti-wetting properties of lighters are better than matches and can be used in worse weather conditions. The cigarette lighter main component is the fire mechanism and the storage tank, the ignition mechanism action, the spark shoot to the gas area, the gas ignition. The firing mechanism is the most active part of the lighters' evolution and is also a more complex part of the structure. According to the characteristics of the ignition mechanism, lighter steel wheel can be divided into fire lighters lighters, piezoelectric ceramics, magnetic induction, solar lighters lighters, batteries lighter, 6 kinds of microcomputer lighter. The gases used by lighters are mainly flammable gases. Use gasoline early. This paper USES butane, propane and petroleum gas. They are pressurized and filled into the tank, which can be easily ignited when released into the air, which can then be heated and inflated.


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