friction match

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But in that year Preschel had a factory in Vienna, Austria, for the manufacture of friction matches with phosphorus as the chief chemical.

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Secured behind one of her ears was a cigarette, while a friction match protruded from the other, ready for use.

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As there were no friction matches in those days, it was the custom to kindle a fire by striking sparks with a flint and steel into dry tinder-stuff.

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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.

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This took a great deal of time and trouble, and Allin, seeing the necessity for friction matches, set about to make them, and succeeded.

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