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 modern phosphorus friction match came into use about 1833.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff

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 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 Dyer, Frank Lewis

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

From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ketcham, Henry