Governments use different kinds of taxes and vary the tax rates. This is done to distribute the tax burden among individuals or classes of the population involved in taxable activities, such as business, or to redistribute resources between individuals or classes in the population.
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.
With cigarettes gaining in popularity, came the need for a slick method for lighting them. The Zippo Manufacturing Company was founded in 1932 by George G. Blaisdell, who developed the first-ever 'Zippo' cigarette lighter in late 1932. The safety match was invented in 1836 by the Hungarian JÃ¡nos Irinyi who was a student of chemistry. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. In 1816, a German chemist named J.W. Dobereiner devised a way of automatically igniting a jet of hydrogen.