Changeable exterior covers and instruments to pack and clean smoking devices are a few examples of personal preferences available with lighters. While the focus is always on flame strength and height, ...

The first Zippo was produced in 1933 ... The flint spring and the flint wheel create the spark for the flame. It's the movement of the two that generates the spark. Next is the wick.

Zippo tapped mobile entertainment agency skyrockit to port the virtual lighter app to Android devices. The virtual lighter opens with a flick of the wrist, lights with a turn of the flint wheel and ...

Even though I’ve lived most of my life within 40 miles of the Zippo Museum in Bradford, I had never been there until recently ...

1. Ask the adult you are working with to light the candle. 2. Watch the candle flame start out small and get bigger. Notice how some of the wax near the wick melts. 3. As the flame burns, the wax from ...

Using an air vortex cannon strapped to a bass reflex port to wiggle a flame to death. (Credit: The Action Lab) Using a fairly beefy speaker to blast a 70 Hz tone at a big alcohol flame was not ...

dip a clean wire loop into a solid sample of the compound being tested put the loop into the edge of the blue flame from a Bunsen burner observe and record the flame ...

For an Edited Version of Zippo v. Zippo click here. Plaintiff Zippo Manufacturing Co. is a Pennsylvania corporation which makes, among other things, the well-known "Zippo" tobacco lighters, and the ...

Some of us may go so far as to have a nice Zippo, or perhaps a windproof lighter ... igniting the wick. The flame can then be extinguished by blowing it out. It’s a lighter that’s sure to ...

German chemist Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner created the "Döbereiner's Lamp," which used hydrogen gas and a platinum catalyst to produce a flame. Over time, lighters have evolved into the convenient, ...