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was in invented by a German chemist named Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner in 1823. it was called Dobereiner's lamp.
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in 1903 Carl Auer von Welsbach made a modern lighters possible
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ronson released the first Pist-O-Liter
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the Ronson company developed its first lighter called Wonderlite. which was a permanent match style of lighters.
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in world war 1 the soldiers used wasted cartridges and glowing wooden blocks to make an improvised type of lighter instead of matches because they freared that the initial sparks.
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1933 over 400,000,000 Zippo lighters have been produced.
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from 1949 to 2002 the zippo was produced in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
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In 2001, according to the fall 2003 issue of IUP Magazine, a 1933 model was purchased for $18,000 at a swap meet in Tokyo,
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In 2009 Zippo announced plans to purchase Ronson Consumer Products Corporation a long-time competitor in the lighter market
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On February 3, 2010, the deal was finalized.
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first lighters were invented in the 16th century
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it was a highly dangerous and was very large. it fell out of popularty by the end of the 19th century.