Guns were flint-locks, tinder-boxes were used until the manufacture of the friction match.

I wonder how many of my readers have reflected that it is just one hundred years since the friction match was invented.

The Equal Righters promptly relighted them with loco-foco or friction matches and continued the meeting.

At this juncture, the boy suddenly recalled that he had some friction matches in his possession.

A Good and Cheap Preparation to Put on Friction Matches.-Theigniting composition varies with different makers.

The First Steam Railway, 1830; the Railway Craze; the Friction Match, 1834.

To relight it under existing circumstances, in an age when friction matches were unknown, was practically impossible.

We had few steamboats, and no railroads, or telephones, or percussion-caps, or a tremendous press, or Darwinism, or friction matches.

"I thought it was a card of friction matches."

To-day friction matches are known throughout the area, although probably not one person in one hundred has ever owned a box of matches.

There were no friction matches and not infrequently a child was sent on a flying visit to a neighbor's house to borrow fire.

The lucifer or friction matches appeared in about 1827, but successful phosphorus matches were first made in about 1833.