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
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
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
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
The modern phosphorus friction match came into use about 1833.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff
