The True History Of..the Lucifer Match. M. Heavisides. Softback. First, 1909. Poor. Very Scarce.
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The True History of the Invention of the Lucifer Match by John Walker of Stockton-on Tees. With an Account of the Ancient Modes of Procuring Light and Fire. Michael Heavisides (editor.). Softback. First Edition, 1909. Poor condition. Very Scarce. The cover and all pages are present, but the book is in poor condition. Dark grey covers with some water-staining and pencil marks. The pages are largely disbound and several have been re-attached with brown paper tape and adhesive tape. The original staples have been removed. Chipping to the edges of many pages. The top corner of page 17/18 has been torn off, although the (loose) torn-off section is still present. A section of page 21/22 is missing. See photographs. Together with a later (1971) book on the same topic. See below. In 1826, John Walker, a chemist in Stockton on Tees, discovered through a lucky accident that a stick coated with certain chemicals burst into flames when scraped across his hearth. He went on to invent the first friction match. Until the first half of the nineteenth century, the process by which fire was created had been very slow and laborious. Walker's friction match revolutionised the production, application and the portability of fire. Walker sold his first "Friction Light" on the 12th April 1827 from his pharmacy in Stockton on Tees. Walker's first friction matches were made of cardboard but he soon began to use wooden splints cut by hand. Later he packaged the matches in a cardboard box equipped with a piece of sandpaper for striking. He was advised to patent his matches but chose not to and, as a result, Samuel Jones of London copied his idea and launched his own "Lucifers" in 1829, an exact copy of Walker's "Friction Lights". TOGETHER WITH a more recent history of John Walker's invention of the friction match: Strike a Light: John Walker, 1781-1859. By Doreen Thomas. Softback. First Edition, 1971, 62 pages. Very Good condition.
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