ELECTRICITY OPERATES “FIRELESS PIPE” (May, 1936)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1936
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1936
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Electric Hookah?
ELECTRICITY OPERATES “FIRELESS PIPE”
A “fireless pipe,” operated by electricity, has been devised by a Toronto, Canada, physician, who maintains that it prevents the inhalation of harmful carbon monoxide and reduces fire hazard by eliminating the use of matches. Tobacco is volatilized by a heating element and the fumes are breathed in the usual way. One model is shaped like a standard pipe; another, built into a table lamp, has tubes for several smokers at once.
Electric Hookah. Sounds like a rock band from the sixties.
Comment by Rick Auricchio — June 25, 2007 @ 1:44 pm
It’s the ancestor to the Volcano “vaporizer!”
I think the tobacco itself is a greater health hazard than the gasses evolved from a few seconds of burning match, but that’s just me…
Comment by Village Idiot — June 26, 2007 @ 4:05 pm