friction match
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And who really invented those later marvels, the friction match, the barometer, the airplane, the steamboat?
From Time Magazine Archive
The sewing-machine had brought with it, like the friction match, one of the most profound influences in modifying domestic life, and making it different from that of all preceding time.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
The modern phosphorus friction match came into use about 1833.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Willis Duff Piercy
But the first really practical friction match was made in the United States in 1836 by L.C.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
So simple an invention as the discovery of the friction match saved hours of labor and permitted hours of leisure to be used in other ways.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
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