p. 10 | Progress in Match Manufacture

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 14, 1892

Progress in Match Manufacture

Progress in the manufacture of matches is noted by a German authority. Sodium chlorate is now used instead of the potassium salt for “headless matches,” which ignite throughout their length, and may be used repeatedly. The growing scarcity of suitable wood has led to the use of match sticks—reported to be excellent—moulded from peat. The dangers of the occupation of making matches seem to have been greatly exaggerated, for there were no cases of phosphorus poisoning in Germany in 1886, only eight in 1887, and three in 1888. —Selected.