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
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
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
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
