History records so many discoveries of objects in the world originating from China. One of them is a wooden match which was first discovered in China. The history of the discovery of this wooden match can be traced in a book entitled Notes About the World and Its Oddities, the author Tao Gu wrote an early description of the match. This literature ranges from 950 AD. After wooden matches spread to various parts of the world, centuries later, matchsticks were created. Its creator is Hennig Brandt from Hamburg, Germany. Lighters of this type were created from experiments conducted by Brandt in 1669 AD. At that time, at first time he tried to make gold from other metals. Unfortunately, not gold is created but phosphorus. from the discovery of phosphorus, he also found that phosphorus has flammable properties. Along with its development, stringed matches developed into gas lighters with lighters. Gas lighters are matches that use liquefied gas. To bring up the fire, rub a flint with a rough surface. The resulting sparks will ignite the gas until the fire ignites. In 1903 a special flint to replace platinum as a catalyst was discovered by Austrian scientist Carl Auer von Welsbac. This flint consists of a pyrophoric alloy, 70% cerium, and 30% iron. When scratched or hit, it will give off sparks. A lighter with a working system utilizes two small wires that can generate electricity to ignite a fire when the gas exits. Although it has been invented since 1917, piezoelectric lighters only came out on the market in the 1950s. With the existence of this piezoelectric lighter then gave rise to various types of lighters that we usually encounter everyday. Of course if you look at the history of its discovery and development, the process is very long until it reaches the use of lighters today.