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 first patent in the United States for a friction match was issued October 24, 1836, to Alonzo D. Phillips, of Springfield, Massachusetts.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff

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 Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)

Guns were flint-locks, tinder-boxes were used until the manufacture of the friction match.

From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ketcham, Henry

No wort der Breitmann ootered, He only make a sgratch, Calm and silend on de daple, Mit a liddle friction match.

From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey