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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. Joshua Pusey - Wikipedia

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    Joshua Pusey c. 1895. Joshua Pusey (March 27, 1842 - May 8, 1906 (?)), was an American inventor and an attorney.. In 1827, an English pharmacist named John Walker produced his "sulphuretted peroxide strikables," gigantic, yard-long sticks that can be considered the real precursor of today's match.

  5. Vesta case - Wikipedia

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    They were made throughout the world including the United Kingdom, in the U.S.A., continental Europe, Japan and Australia. Important and notable English makers of vesta cases included silversmiths such as Mappin & Webb, Sampson Mordan, [2] Asprey & Co., William Neale & Sons, Elkington & Co., Saunders & Shepherd and William Hair Haseler, who partnered with Arthur Lasenby Liberty, the founder of ...

  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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  9. Redheads (matches) - Wikipedia

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    Redheads is an Australian brand of matches, originally manufactured by Bryant and May in Richmond, Victoria, but now manufactured in Sweden by Swedish Match. [1] It is Australia's top-selling match brand. [2] Matches were first produced in Australia in 1909. Initially they were made of white phosphorus. [3]

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