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MATCH - LoveToKnow Article on MATCH (1128 words) |
 | The first attempt to make matches in the modern sense may probably be ascribed to Godfrey Haukwitz, who, in 1680, acting under the direction of Robert Boyle, who at that time had just discovered how to prepare phosphorus, employed small pieces of that element, ignited by friction, to light splints of -wood dipped in sulphur. |
| The matches so pre pared, when brought into contact with the sulphuric acid in th bottle, ignited, and thus, by chemical action, fire was produced In 1823 a decided impetus was given to the artificial productior of fire by the introduction of the DObereiner lamp, so called afte~ its inventor, J. DObereiner of Jena. |
| At the same time also matches were being made by F. Moldenhauer in Darmstadt; and for a long series of years Austria and the South-German states were the principal centres of the new industry. |
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