The Art Deco style of the 1920s and '30s pervaded design, from the Chrysler Building in Manhattan to the Grand Rex in Paris, but it wasn't always on such a large scale. Orion cigarette lighter (United ...

Cigarette lighters in cars have come a long way since their inception. Introduced in the 1920s, these tiny devices have somehow managed to survive the test of time, despite the decline in smoking ...

The story of lighters is connected to imperialism, wars, economic boom, eliticism, movies, expansion of tobacco trade, smoking as a manifestation of male ego, globalisation and the consequent rise in ...