Whether a smoker or perhaps not, majority of people have heard of the Zippo brand lighters. During the Great Depression, George G. Blaisdell from Bradford, Pennsylvania founded the Zippo brand lighter, plus it has stayed a favored accessory for countless because. The idea for this lighter stemmed from a more complicated Australian version. Blaisdell used the chimney idea with this lighter to maintain a wind proof lighter, but the Zippo lighter is designed to be conveniently run. The name Zippo is a type of the term zipper. Mr. Blaisdell preferred the sound of the term zipper thus he found a method to incorporate it into his product.