Döbereiner's lamp
Encendedor de Döbereiner
- Date
- 1823 · confidence high
- Place
- Jena, Thuringia, Germany
- Credited to
- Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A tinderbox lighter that produces a flame by reacting hydrogen over a catalytic platinum sponge, invented by German chemist Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner; the first commercial application of heterogeneous catalysis.
What it led to
- Industrial heterogeneous catalysis
- Modern household lighters
- Use of platinum as a catalyst
- Applied gas chemistry