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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. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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]

7. History of television - Wikipedia

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   It was unlike any other TV system of the 20th Century and in some respects, Low had a digital TV system 80 years before modern digital TV. World War One began shortly after these demonstrations in London and Low became involved in sensitive military work on UAVs, so did not apply for a patent until 1917. His "Televista" Patent No. 191,405 ...

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   Get a daily dose of cute photos of animals like cats, dogs, and more along with animal related news stories for your daily life from AOL.

9. 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 ...