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 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
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 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
No man in the country had ever seen a stove, or a furnace, or a friction match, or an envelope, or a piece of mineral coal.
From A School History of the United States by McMaster, John Bach
