And depending on your own age, you might know that as the cigarette lighter port. Whereas this thing used to have a single purpose — lighting cigars and cigarettes via hot coil — there are ...

And depending on your own age, you might know that as the cigarette lighter port ... just a magneto to provide a spark. Cars didn’t even have batteries until about 1920, when an electric ...

a rare feature for lighters. 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. The wick zigzags through ...

It didn't occur to me until some time after I bought it, but this is the direct ancestor of the disposable plastic cigarette lighter ... plate on the side until a spark would light the naphtha ...