Peyla, L. (English spelling) PeylaL

Japanese: Peyla,L.(英語表記)PeylaL
Peyla, L. (English spelling) PeylaL

... an ignition device, especially a cigarette lighter for lighting cigarettes. Around 1779, Italian L. Peyla invented the "Turin candle," which was made by putting wax in a glass tube, filling one end with phosphorus, sulfur, and oil, and breaking the glass tube to ignite it. In 1823, German chemist JW Dobereiner created an ignition device that ignited when hydrogen was blown onto a platinum sponge (spongy platinum) attached to the mouth of the glass container of a hydrogen generating device, and by 1828, about 20,000 of these were in use in Germany and England.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Peyla, L." is listed below.

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Japanese:

…点火器,とくにタバコの火をつけるためのシガレットライター。1779年ころにイタリアのペイラL.Peylaが,ガラス管に蠟(ろう)を入れ,一方の端末にリン,硫黄,油を詰め,ガラス管を折ることで発火する〈トリノのろうそく〉を発明した。また1823年にはドイツの化学者J.W.デーベライナーが水素発生装置のガラス容器の口に白金海綿(海綿状にした白金)をつけ,これに水素を吹きつけると発火する点火器をつくり,28年にはドイツとイギリスで約2万個が使われていたという。…

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