Friction matches, also known by the name Lucifer, were manufactured in South Hannibal, during the years leading up to and ...

The latter are stated to have come to an end when the introduction of lucifer matches made it easy to read an ordinary watch at night. There is a chapter dealing with the artistic side of the ...

Walker did not patent his invention. Samuel Jones from London copied his idea and marketed his matches as "Lucifer's"!In 1826, John Walker, a chemist in Stockton on Tees, discovered through lucky ...

is now largely employed in the igniting composition of the lucifer match in place of ordinary phosphorus. The substitution of this compound for phosphorus—now compulsory in most countries where ...