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
Guns were flint-locks, tinder-boxes were used until the manufacture of the friction match.
From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ketcham, Henry
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
The modern phosphorus friction match came into use about 1833.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff
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)
