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

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)

The numbers of these available were small but other types were more plentiful and included the jam tin, cricket ball, time and friction, match head, and hair brush.

From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Collett, Herbert Brayley

The modern phosphorus friction match came into use about 1833.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff