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THE SCRAOTON TRIBUNE.
BATUnDAT, FEMtUAIlY 5, 1801
VARIOUS WAYS FOR
GETTING A LIGHT
Tlicy All Depend Upon 'the Agency of'
Friction.
BUT THE PROCESS HAS CIIANQED
fjoniD I'ncts Noted Ajnopos of lliu
Itccciit Dcnth ol Sir Isiuic Iloldun,
lliu Kciiorlcd Inventor l tho I.uel
lor Mutch" A Chnntcr m Mntcli
innlduc. l'rom the Uoston Herald.
The announcement that Sir Ihouc
H olden, M. I'.. who died iccently In
London, was the Inventor of the luct
fer match may he correct, but there
is stronR evidence to the contrary.
J'honphorUH friction matches were
made In J'arls as Ions ago as 181G,
and In 1827 they were manufactured
In considerable quantities In UnRland.
They were Introduced on a commercial
ycalo In England nlxty-thrco or sixty
four years ago, and appear to have
been brought out. almost simultaneous
ly in several other cities in Europe.
The name most prominently connected
with the early stages of the Invention
Is richel of Vienna, who In 1S33 had a
factory In operation, making, besides
phosphrous matches, fuses and amadou
(or German tinder) slips tipped with
an Igniting compound. At the same
time also matches were being made by
Moldenhauor In Darmstadt.
There is good authority for the be
lief that the friction match was the
product of the ingenuity of John Fred
prick Komercr, who, early In the cen
tury, was Imprisoned in the peniten
tiary at Hohcnsperg, in Germany. Ho
hegan manufacturing after he was re
leased from prison, but was ruined by
Viennese competition and died a paup
er. Up to 1S62 the manufacturers of
Austria and South Germany controlled
the match business of the entire world.
PRIMITIVE PROCESSES.
The primitive method of kindling a
lire was, no doubt, the use of friction.
Two pieces of wood were rubber to
gether until .the dust evolved by the
operation Ignited hy the heat produced.
This mode was still in vogue a few
years ago on some of the smaller Is
lands of the Pacific, which had not en
Joyed the advantages of sutlllent com
merce with Euronp or America to keep
them supplied with more modern con
nivances. The usual way of per
forming this operation Is to nress the
sharpened end of a stick of hard wood
against a piece of soft wood, notched
t receive the point, and twirl It rap
idly hack and forth between tnc palms
if the hands. The small particles
nibbed off are kindled after a while,
and a little dry moss Is added to In
i loafre the llame, until it is large en
ouch to communicnte to twigs and
splinters. While this method answers
veil with the uncivilized people vho
.uploy It, It requires much habit and
nit Miength, as shipwrecked nuir
'Pi' and "matchless" travelers huvo
' ijj-d in their sorrow.
!i Terra del Fuego, at the extremity
South America, euily tr.n Mlis
lol I'le natives prfwHiring fire i
''. ' !iuv lirhkly n nce of pvilm
:'r:i t. itlnty '.nm i.-iil ratchln;; th
l-" ii'nn i dry. pi iKi.y ,iha',nc.
,! h v;nn 'illicitly 'nlmncil. Tli'.; np-
- ml.cd nearlv tirthc flint ind e'.cv!
r.-ietl by civilised -ationi
i'l,l'T A.VD sstej-:!..
'.' in In- end of the Irsi quarter of
p:'enl i-entutv U' illnl and steel
le i'.lmost the onl!" In-truinents of
. Mlap- llshl in the civilized world.
v. riouii tonus of apruralus ivero used.
it all employed thes- two substances '
jrlv out llie snark. Minute frag
n.e'rts ( steel were thrown oft" by
.rlkViig it asaint the Jllnt, and theee
I .ut!wJt's, rendered intensely hot by the
friction, were caught on tinder. Tinder
.as made by partially burning linen
or cotton rage until nothing remained
of them but enrhon In a very attenu
ated sta.'.e. It Is very susceptible of
Ignition, !ul It does not flume up and
will not immediately communicate lire
to paper or wood, because the com
bustible parts of these, substances nre
combined with others that retard,
rather than aid, combustion, and there
fore require a certain time to separ
ate before ignition Is possible. Anoth
er and more inflammable substance,
therefore, was necessary to take fire
from the tinder, and this was found
in sulphur. The pointed ends of thin
slips of highly resinous or very dry
pine wood wero dipped In melted r.ul
phur, and, thus prepared, instantly ig
nited when applied to the incandescent
tinder. These bits of prepared wood
were the first '"brimstone matches."
They were exceedingly malodorous, and
to avoid their use "match paper," or
"touch paper," a thick paper Impreg
nated with saltpetre, or amudou, a felt
like substance, prepared from the fun
gus Polyporus fomenturlu, were some
times substituted for tinder as the re
cipient of the spark from :llnt and steel,
and would communicate fhv without
the Intervention ol the sulphur match.
Ulacksmlths occasionally ignored
tllnt and steel In Uch'tlng their forge
lilts, hy striking soft iron wire smart
blows with it hammer, making It red
hot In a few beconds, ana thrusting it
Into a Httla heap of powdered brim
stone and sawdust, which It Immedi
ately kindled.
POPGUN JLUTMINATiO?.
Early In the century an Ingenious
Frenchman util.'zed the well-known
fuct that the lapld compression of air
cieates Intense heat, In a lif;ht-strikhi
uiparatus made like u popgun cloted
nt the end. Placing amadou In the
dosed end and forcing the pinion down
wltli geat force, suldcleiit heat was
goneruted to kindle the tinder, and a
lUht could be pmcured from It with a
brimstone match. This apparatus was
uncertain and easily put out of order
and never came into common use.
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Phosphorus, dlsoovoted hy llrandt In
1068, was first applied commercially ns
a means of obtaining fire by Godfrey
Ilaukwllii, of London, who In 10SO, un
der the dliectlon of lionet t lloyle, pre
pared and sold considerable quantities.
Small particles were rubbed between
fold of brown paper, and sulphur
Pit' Idles were Ignited from the l exult
ing llame Hut ns phosphorus as then
prepared was both costly and danger
ous the Invention was not long employ
ed. it was not until 1513 that attempts
were made to use chemical agency for
the production of lire. In that year M.
Clianiie, assistant to Professor Then
aid, of Paris, discovered that a mix
ture of ehloiato of potash and sugar
would Ignite If dipped Into sulphuric
acid.
in 1S23 a phosphorus match was pro
posed. In this case equal parts of
phosphorus and sulphur were eauttous
ly mingled in a glass tube or vial,
which was kept securely corked. When
a light whs wanted, a small pellet o
the tnlMuro wns taken out on u. sill-phiy-tlpped
splint, and. being' rubbed
quickly ngaliihU a pl"cc of cork. Ignited
almost spontaneously. The vial, cork
and mntehes were kept together In a
small reepptacla called a "phosphorus
box."
Another somewhat similar apparat
us was prepared hy putting a piece nf
phosphorus In a small vlnl and stirring
It al out with a hot wire passed through
the cork. Il.v this process the phos
phorus was partially burned In a con
fined portion of air and converted Into
oxide of phosphorus. To procure a
light a common brimstone match was
Inserted and a small portion of the
substance withdrawn on Its tip, by
which llame was'instantly produced.
ACID UTILIZED.
51. Chanul's discovery, mentioned
above, wns utilized In England some
twenty years after It was made. In
what was called an "Instantaneous
light box." The box wns made of tin,
and in It were placed a. small glass
stoppered bottle containing sulphuric
acid, with enough asbestos (a fibrous
mineral unaffected by fire or acids') to
soak it up and prevent It from spilling,
and a supply of small splints of wood
that had been dipped In melted sulphur
and tipped with a compound of six
parts of chlorate of potash, two of
powdered loaf sugar, and one of pow
dered gum, mixed together In a paste
with water. On touching the prepared
ends to the acid they burst Into llame.
Put there were several disadvantages
to this device, especially those arising
from the use of the ncld, which, aside
from Its destructive properties, pos
sesses great power of absorbing moist
ure from the ntmosphcre, and, conse
quently, soon became Inert from dilu
tion. To do aay with the acid bottle a
match called the "promethean" was
patented by H. Jones, of London, In
1830. This consisted of a short roll of
paper, with a smnll quantity of chlor
ate of potash and sugar at one end, to
which wns attached a tiny glass glob
ule containing sulphuric ncld. A slight
blow broke the glass, the released acid
mixed with the paste, and the match
was lighted. The Invention was dan
gerous as well as costly, for an acci
dental fall or blow would Ignite u box
of thee matches lu a room or even in
a pocket, with disastrous consequences.
In the meantime the "Inciter match"
so named, probably, fioni "Lucifer,
son of the morning" (Isaiah, xiv., 12)
gained a footing. It was a strip of
either pasteboard or wood, tipped with
an inllaiuma'de mlxtuie composed of
chlorite of potash and sulphuret of
antimony, with enough of powdered
gum to render it udhesivc when mixed
with water. Thee mutches v.'eie Ig
lilted by drawing them through a fold
ed piece of sandpaper. So popular did
they become that, although they weie
long ago disused, they have left their
name behind to bo popularly applied to
other kinds since Invented.
PHOSPOIU'S TO THE FORE.
A friction match with phosphorus,
tlji was experimented with by Mr. Der
osne in Paris as early as 1810, but the
first really practical phosphorus fric
tion matches were made In England
In 1827 by John Walker, a 'druggist
of Stockton-on-Tees, who called his
productions "congreves," in honor of
Sir William Congreve, the inventor of
the war rocket known by his name.
They were not widely used for a num
ber of years afterward; but they
sprang Into favor as soon as their
good qualities became known, and were
the direct ancestors of the matches
UFed at the present day. The body of
the "congreve" was originally of wood,
though a very thin wax taper, subse
quently came into limited use." The
Igniting composition, which required
very little friction to Inflame It. con
sisted of phosphorus und nltio, or
phosphorus, sulphur nnd chlorate of
potash, mixed with gum and colored
with vermllllon, led lead, umber, Prus
sian blue, soot, or other pigments.
The "safety match" was Invented
by a Swedish manufacturer of Jon
keplng. named Lundstrom, In lSDC. The
employment of phosphorus In the "con
greves" rendered them liable to acci
dental Ignition, und so Lundstrom left
ll out of the composition applied to the
match, and, Instead, mixed it with the
sand on the friction surface, thus sep
arating the highly inllainmable mater
ial fiom Its Intimate and dangerous
ciii.itectlon with sulphur und chlornte
of potash. The safety matches "light
unly on the box," in theory, but they
may be Ignited by drawing them rap
idly across a polished gluts surface,
like a mirror of a plate glass window.
Only the so-called "Portland match
es" and a few other varieties of the
wooden match aio now dipped in sul
phur, stearlne or paraflino having been
lUbstituted to render the splints more
inflammable. There Is a Boston man
who fills his matchbox and ticket pock
ets with "Poi Hand matches" whenever
he goes to New York, and takes great
delight lu offering them to his friends
there to light their cigars. This brand
of matches Is little known on Manhat
tan Island, and ns the smokers, think
ing they have their customary lights,
tue woouworK
They come easily and
e
you get rid of them with
cleaning easy.
ixuii. new von,
J'UllaiJelpbl.
apply the "Portlands" to their cigars
nnd begin to puff Immediately the tip
Is Ignited, they generally Inhale a sul
phurous whiff that nearly chokes them.
Whereat the Dostonlan laughs con
stimedl) .
TltADE CONDITIONS.
Until the Introduction of amorphous
phosphorus (which was made by Prof.
Anton von Scroetho of Vienna In 1S45)
the trade of mntchmaklng was very
unhealthy. The emanation of phos
phoric acid, when common phosphorus
was used, gave rise to necrosis, a dis
ease which destroys the bones, and
fntnl effects often follow. Amorphous
phosphorus, being entirely llxed at or
dinary temperatures, workmen now en
joy absolute Immunity. It Is only In
flnnuualilc when rubbed In contact with
chlorate of pntaeh or black oxide of
mangtmese, and safety from nccldenta'l
flie Is Insured by separating these ma
terials, the chlorate bclnt' plnced on
the match nnd the phosphorus on the
friction tablet.
"Vesuvinns," or "fusees," for smok
ers' use. which no wind short of a tor
nado can blow out, and illicit will light
In a rainstorm as well as In iliy weath
er, have bulbous heads, made of some
slow-burning compound, such as n mlx
tuie of charcoal, saltpetre, sand, and
gum, tipped with the Igniting compo
sition of ordinary matches. Amadou
or German tinder Is considerably used
In this kind ol lighters. Sometimes
Vesuvlans and fusees nre mounted on
u thick, round, woven braid instead
of a splint of wood. "Flamers." for
the same purpose, have thick heads of
tlaitiing mixture, on cither a wax taper
or a wooden stick.
As a contrast to present prices, it
may be mentioned that "Instantaneoin
llch't hoxis" above described, contain
ing 10ii matches with the acid bottle,
were originally sold nt IP shillings
about $3.00 each, but the introduction
of the luclfer match sent the rate
lovni to a penny. "Congreves" were
flr uold in boxes of fifty at 2 shillings
and sixpence, or GO Cents a box; then
the price fell so that eighty-four could
be purchased for a shilling 21 cents.
MACHINERY.
Most of the processes of match
manufacture aie now effected by ma
chinery, und many Ingenious inven
tions have been Introduced for making
the wooden splints. Headers old enough
to recall the "war times" of the '(10s
will doubtless remember that most do
mestic mntehes (few wore Imported
then, because of the high tariff) were
of ii very poor quality. Each bunch (to
which a 1-cent Internal revenue stamp
was affixed) was an oblong block of
wood about I1,;. Inches in length and
three-fourths of an inch square, which
was supposed to have been split length
wise by two sets of knives acting nt
right angles to each other, Into little
sticks; but the operation was so im-.
perfectly performed that the matches
could usually be separated only with
great difficulty, and the piece of paper
pasted on the end opposite the brim
stone was rarely called upon to hold
the matches together. Another variety
much better In quality, which came
later, was In the form of comb-shaped
"cards," a "gang" of smnll circular
saws being used to divide the matches.
Sawing wasted too much wood, and
knives were next employed, as will be
seen by examining the "Portland
matches," the "card" now containing
twenty-four instead of a dozen splints.
Hut the use of "card" matches Is lim
ited, and the Individual matches In
boxes form the bulk of those now con
sumed in this country.
The splints are usually made of a
soft kind of white pine, though some
nspen Is used In Sweden. The square
ones are cut out veiy simply by knives,
and the round ones are shaped by pass
ing through perforations In steel plates,
a process Invented in 1S12 by a Mr.
Partridge.
Thero are several kinds of machines
for producing the splints. Hy one pro
cess a log of fifteen Inches' length,
stripped of Its bark and soaked or
steamed. Is put into a machine, which
unrolls It, as it were, In a continuous
atrip as wide as the log is long nnd of
the thickness of u match. This strip
as it comes off is divided into seven,
each equal In width to the length of
n match. These narrower strips are
broken into lengths of six or seven feet,
and after the knotty and Imperfect
parts have been removed, are fed Into
a second machine, which cuts them In
to match sticks nt the rate of 15,000.000
a day. Another splint-cutting machine,
Invented by John Jex Long, of Glas
gow In 1871, operates on squared blocks
of two match lengths, and Is capable
of producing 17,000,000 dally.
DIPPING.
The splints are dried In revolving
diuniH and sifted to free them from
fragments and splinters and arrange
them in parellel order, und then are
put Into a "filling" machine of Amer
ican Invention which sticks them Into
the dipping frames. These frames are
IS inches square, nnd each Is made of
41 thin strips of wood like blind slats,
lying side by side, and loosely held
together by Iron rods passing through
the ends. Twenty-two hundred splints
are placed by the machine In parellel
rows between the strips of each frame,
so separated that no one splint, touches
another. Tightening the screws on the
rods draws the slips together and fast
ens the splints Into the frame, which
I then ready to go Into the dipping
room. The splints In the frames are
heated and their projecting ends are
dipped in paralline, which Is kept liquid
by warmth in shallow, flat-bottomed
pans. After this bath has been ab
sorbed the matches receive their
heads, the Igniting substance being In
some cases kept In a uniform thin
stream In a pan, and In others supplied
by an endless rubber belt. A skilful
workman can dip 3,500 or 4,000 frames,
or about 8,000,000 matches In a day.
After dipping, the frames are arranged
lu ii heated apartment to dry.
Almost every manufacturer has his
own special mixture for tipping the
matches. One published recipe gives
the ingredients us one-half part by
weight of common phosphorus, four of
chlorate of potash, two of glue, one of
whiting, nnd four of finely powdered
glass. As It makes a less noisy match,
nitrate of potash Is sometimes substi
tuted for chlorate. Other oxidizing
agents used Instead of or In connection
with these salts of potash, are the oxide
of manganese and red oxide or dioxide
of lead. According to Gautier, the
Igniting mixture for ordinary matches
made In France Is composed of three
parts of common phosphorus, two of
lead dioxide, two of Band, and three,
of gum. Tito same author states that
safety matches are dipped In a com
position of five partH of chlorate of
potash, two of sulphide of antimony,
and ono of glue, nnd that the rubbing
surfneo Is a mixture of flvo parts of
amorphous phosphorus, four of sul
phide of antimony and two and one
half of glue.
MATCH USE anowiNa.
Statisticians whore opinions carry
weight estimate that the average dally
consumption of matches in the Uni
ted States Is 225,000,000 to 230,000,000.
This country has been h large Importer
of ihess articles, especially from Eng
land, Sweden nnd Germany, while pro
ducing great quantities nt home. Th'e
manufacture In the United States Is
mnlnly controlled by one combination
cf capitalists, the Diamond Match
compnry, hut a rival has lately arisen.
Probably $7,500,000 worth are annually
produced In Great Urltaln, where the
dnlly consumption Is estimated at 200,
000,000. More than one firm In that
country produces 10,000,000 a day, and
ono lllrmlnghnm establishment turns
out dally eight miles of thin wax paper
and converts It Into "vestas." In Swe
den and Norway, where, of lato years
tho trade h'as developed with great
rapidity, thoro are tome Co factories,
ti.lOO matchmakers being employe! in
Jonkoplng alone. Germany nnd Aus
tria together have as many us 450 fac
tories. Ono firm In Schutenhofcr, In
Hohemla, employs 2,700 persons. The
four prlnclpnl manufacturers In Vienna
furnish employment to 0,000 people. In
Frnnce making matches, like the trade
in tobacco, Is a government monopoly.
Chlnu, Japan, Urnzll, and other coun
tries now manufacture matches, and
those of China compete with Swedish
goods In the Uerman markets.
iii:lim:i) ih.ii uv.t his pay.
President Lincoln's Kindliest to n
Tired and I,ot Soulier.
From the New York Independent.
One day In November, of the year re
ferred to President Lincoln had been nt
the office of the Secretary of War, and
was travel sine the long halls at tho
War and Navy building, sedate, unns
sumlng and unattended, when he met a
worn soldier. In a tattered uniform of
blue, evidently at a loss among the
many doors along the corridor. For a
moment he watched the man as ho
wandered uncertainly from point to
point and then aceotcd htm,
"My good man, Vliom do you wish to
see?"
The soldier looked at his questioner
and, noting the kindly Interest In his
face, replied that he was just from the
army of tho Potomac, having been dis
charged the day before, upon the ex
piration of his three year term of ser
vice, that ho wished to go to his home
In Vermont, but that ho had been
obliged to stop In Washington to get
the money that wns duo him, as the
regimental paymaster had given him
an order-for the money, payable In
Washington. For hours he had been
wandering nboul the city and the pub
lic buildings, looking for the officer to
whom his order was directed, but as
yet he had been unable to find him.
He had been told that the paymaster
general was In this building, and he
was now looking for his ofllce.
The president's face beamed. He
know that the paymaster general was
not the person who actually paid the
Individual soldier, and he did not know
where the proper officer wns to be
found, but he did know that through
his assistance this bronzed and ragged
private, who exemplified the great
self-sacrlilcing loyalty of the nation,
could bo paid, and taking a blank card
from his pocket, he held it against the
wall and with a short pencil wrote up
on It as follows:
"This poor soldier is in distress be
cause he can get no pay. Will pay
master general please havcliim put on
the right track to get his pay.
"Nov. St. ISrtl. A. Lincoln."
Handing this message to tlie veteran,
ho directed him whore to Und the ofllce
of the paymaster general and Instruct
ed him to present the card at tho door.
It Is unnecessary to stale that the
soldier promptly obtained his pay and
left the capital for his Green moun
tain home.
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(,'onlllcllug Legal St) lex.
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