Who made the first match? The French will say it was Charles-Marc Sauria, whose centenary they will probably celebrate before long. Sauria, as a boy, found that a splinter of wood coated with chlorate of potash and sulphur would break into flame when struck against a wall on which phosphorus had been spread. The boy had not the means to capitalise his discovery, which was done elsewhere, and, although a professor of natural science, under whom Sauria studied, certified the value of the match, Sauria never received public credit for it.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 21 October 1927, Page 9
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