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The electrical cigar-lighter was invented and patented in the early 1880s by the German inventor Friedrich Wilhelm Schindler (de). In the 1890s, these tools were sold as electrical cigar lighters (Cigarrenanzuender), and later as Zigarrenanzuender in the major German warehouse catalogues.
Early lighters used gasoline, kerosene, and naphtha. Fusee cord lighters using just a flint tube, striker wheel and holder for the cord were in widespread use virtually from the time of the invention of the flint (and, as noted above, in other forms prior to that) and continued to be manufactured through the 1940s.