Propane Torch

The first known blowtorch or blowlamp patent is from France and is dated January 7, 1791. In 1882, a new vaporizing technique was developed by C. R. Nyberg in Sweden and the year after, the production of the Nyberg blow lamp started. It was quickly copied or licensed by many other manufacturers. The US blowlamp was independently developed with a distinctive flared base and was fueled by gasoline, whereas the European versions used kerosene due to safety and cheaper economical reasons. After the Korean War in the 1950s, propane caused many changes in the blowlamp industry worldwide and by the 1970s most manufacturers of the old type of blowlamp, using gasoline or kerosene as fuel, had disappeared. This sound uses the following sound file from Freesound (http://www.freesound.org): luffy_fire5.wav by luffy