How is current knowledge shaped by its historical development? Object 1: The first model of the lighter, Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner, 1823. From the picture above you can see a Lighter, the first lighter, it was invented by a German chemist named Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner created the rst Iightlter, it is also known as a "D6bereiner19lamp", it was invented in 1823. Who of us is not familiar today with such a convenient and compact device for quick extraction of re, like a lighter. "His "Dobereiner's lamp" was a jar which housed the reaction of zinc metal and sulfuric acid, which produced ammable hydrogen gas. When the valve on the top of the container was opened, a jet of hydrogen gas was released and catalyzed by platinum metal"("D