单词 | friction match |
例句 | But in that year Preschel had a factory in Vienna, Austria, for the manufacture of friction matches with phosphorus as the chief chemical. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z Secured behind one of her ears was a cigarette, while a friction match protruded from the other, ready for use. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z As there were no friction matches in those days, it was the custom to kindle a fire by striking sparks with a flint and steel into dry tinder-stuff. American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z Thucydides never had his works puffed in a newspaper, Virgil and Horace never poetized or lectured for a lyceum; Charlemagne never saw a locomotive, nor did St. Thomas Aquinas ever use a friction match. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z This took a great deal of time and trouble, and Allin, seeing the necessity for friction matches, set about to make them, and succeeded. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 So simple an invention as the discovery of the friction match saved hours of labor and permitted hours of leisure to be used in other ways. History of Human Society It feels just like a whole bunch of friction matches touched off at once in my stomach—that's so. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim "I thought it was a card of friction matches." The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder The first practical friction matches were "Congreves," made in England in 1827. Home Life in Colonial Days We had few steamboats, and no railroads, or telephones, or percussion-caps, or a tremendous press, or Darwinism, or friction matches. Memoirs After the coming of the white man, but before the introduction of friction matches, which are now used by the whole tribe, the Omaha used flints and tinder for making fire. Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and Implements Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 263-288 There were no friction matches and not infrequently a child was sent on a flying visit to a neighbor's house to borrow fire. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 It is a small miniature case containing twelve copper cartridges, such as are used in a Smith & Wesson pocket pistol, a bundle of sensitive friction matches, a strip of sand-paper, and some fulminating powder. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State To relight it under existing circumstances, in an age when friction matches were unknown, was practically impossible. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Afterward, at the suggestion of Professor Faraday, saltpeter was substituted for the chlorate, and then the era of friction matches, or matches lighted by rubbing, was fairly begun. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Hundreds of homely articles, as friction matches and rubber shoes, came into use in these years. A Short History of the United States No man in the country had ever seen a stove, or a furnace, or a friction match, or an envelope, or a piece of mineral coal. A School History of the United States About a dozen copper cartridges were disclosed—those used in a Smith & Wesson pocket pistol, it appeared afterward—six of them lying on each side of a bunch of friction matches in the centre. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State The sewing-machine had brought with it, like the friction match, one of the most profound influences in modifying domestic life, and making it different from that of all preceding time. Edison, His Life and Inventions It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and for many other purposes. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q Now we have railroads, steamboats, friction matches, temperance societies, Sunday-schools, the Bible translated into various languages, which but a few years ago were unknown. Personal Experience of a Physician At this juncture, the boy suddenly recalled that he had some friction matches in his possession. In the Pecos Country / Lieutenant R. H. Jayne To-day friction matches are known throughout the area, although probably not one person in one hundred has ever owned a box of matches. The Bontoc Igorot |
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