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
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
Guns were flint-locks, tinder-boxes were used until the manufacture of the friction match.
From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ketcham, Henry
Thucydides never had his works puffed in a newspaper, Virgil and Horace never poetized or lectured for a lyceum; Charlemagne never saw a locomotive, nor did St. Thomas Aquinas ever use a friction match.
From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard
