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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.
Probably in the 1920s they were renamed cigarette lighters, as cigarettes overtook cigars in sales. In 1921, the Morris U.S. Patent 1,376,154 was issued for a so-called wireless or cordless lighter with a removable element.