//But nobody did it until recently, and the guy who did, invented the thing because he kept blowing up his lab mucking with flint and steel after he turned on the gas.//
Uhm no, Caveman did same thing in huge cavern loaded with natural gas.
“The lighter is exhibited in the Deutsches Museum and in the old pharmacy in the Heidelberg Castle.”
My head is about to explode. I was in Heidelberg castle last year, wife and four kids in tow, and skipped the pharmacy tour.
ARRRRRRRGH!