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2. Match - Wikipedia

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   These were used to light fires and fire guns (see matchlock) and cannons (see linstock) [3] and to detonate explosive devices such as dynamite sticks. Such matches were characterised by their burning speed i.e. quick match and slow match. Depending on its formulation, a slow match burns at a rate of around 30 cm (1 ft) per hour and a quick ...

3. John Walker (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   Following the ideas laid out by the French chemist Charles Sauria, who in 1830 invented the first phosphorus-based match by replacing the antimony sulfide in Walker's matches with white phosphorus, matches were first patented in the United States in 1836, in Massachusetts, being smaller in size and safer to use. White phosphorus was later ...

4. Gustaf Erik Pasch - Wikipedia

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   An igniting safety match. Jöns Jacob Berzelius, who invented the modern chemical notation, discovered that the dangerous white phosphorus in matches could be replaced with the more benign red phosphorus, but was not able to produce a match reliable enough for everyday use. Pasch, a student of Berzelius, managed to do so by moving the ...

5. YouTube TV - Wikipedia

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   In March 2019, YouTube TV launched in Glendive, Montana, thus making the service available in all 210 American television markets. [13] On April 10, 2019, YouTube TV added nine networks owned by Discovery, Inc. (including Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Animal Planet and OWN), bringing the service's lineup up to 70 channels. [14]

6. Johan Edvard Lundström - Wikipedia

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   Alexander Lagerman (1836–1904), a Swedish engineer who was employed by the Lundström brothers, invented the first fully automatic match machine. The safety match combined with the advanced machines that the company developed themselves, soon made the company in Jönköping the largest match company in Scandinavia and one of the world's ...

7. Diamond Match Company - Wikipedia

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   Following the Panic of 1893, Barber moved the Diamond Match Company factory in Akron to the adjacent town of his own creation, Barberton. [5] He turned the abandoned Akron match factory into the Diamond Rubber Company factory. The Diamond Match Company was the largest manufacturer of matches in the United States in the late nineteenth century. [6]

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   The World Health Organization estimates that as many as 5.4 million people are bitten by snakes each year. Snakebite injuries leave around 400,000 people permanently disabled o… PetHelpful 8 ...

9. Timeline of the introduction of color television in countries ...

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   Introduced for the 1978 FIFA World Cup by A78TV (Argentina 78 TV), a purpose-built system that took over the signals of channels 7 and 13 for the telecast of the Cup's games, even though only the finals and several second-round matches were broadcast in color for the domestic market. LS 82 Canal 7 became ATC (Argentina Televisora Color) on 3 ...