Ordinary black matches, safety matches is the original design, from Sweden. As the match after ignition head is still black, as distinguished from, and later joined the security dye in the first match in medicine.
In 1826, Walker in England invented the "lucifer match", and the foreign fire and the modern match was born. In Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Match Girl, the burning ma...
Match lighter than late invention. Lighter was invented in the 16th century, the invention of matches in the 19th century.
The past is generally believed that the lighter a drawn first appeared in the year 1505 in Nuremberg, Germany.