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Safety matches. An igniting safety match. Jöns Jacob Berzelius, who invented the modern chemical notation, discovered that the dangerous white phosphorus in matches could be replaced with the more benign red phosphorus, but was not able to produce a match reliable enough for everyday use.
- The Jönköping Safety Match Factory
- Manufacturing
- Mechanisation
- Matchbox Covers
Johan Edvard Lundström (1815–1888) further developed Swedish chemist Gustaf Erik Pasch’s idea and applied for the patent on the phosphor-free safety match. His younger brother, Carl Frans Lundström (1823–1917) was an entrepreneur and industrialist with bold ideas. Between 1844-1845, the brothers opened a safety match factory in Jönköping, Sweden. M...
For a long time, matches were manufactured by hand. They were made of aspen and a single log of aspen could produce 370,000 matches. Planing the matches by hand was heavy, time consuming work. The matches were then dipped in sulphur, which meant that the flame could easily be transferred from the head of the match to the wood. Johan Edvard Lundströ...
Alexander Lagerman (1836–1904) began working at the Jönköping safety match factory in 1870. He is regarded to be one of the pioneers of mechanisation. Alexander Lagerman built a machine that produced matchboxes. He then produced machines that manufactured the inner and outer boxes. At the start of the 1880s, he built a box-filling machine that fill...
Matchbox covers were an important part of foreign marketing. These days there are 9,000 different export covers. The Three Stars, or Tre Stjärnor, came along in 1887 and is one of the best known. The brand was sold throughout the British Empire. The covers often had themes from the world of technology or zoology. Occasionally, the ruling powers ord...
The Safety Match is an English Realism short story by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1877. The Safety Match is Chekhov's clever parody, a Russian whodunnit.
The safety match was invented in 1844 in Sweden, by Gustaf Eric Pasch, improved on by Johan Edvard Lundström, and prevented unintentional combustion by separating the reactive ingredients between the match head and the striking surface.
One discovery that happened in the early 1840s managed to elevate majority those problems, and introduce to the world match what would soon became the absolute most famous match design of our history – safety matches.
The Safety Match, or The Swedish Match (Russian: Шведская спичка, romanized: Shvedskaya spichka) is a 1954 Soviet comedy film directed by Konstantin Yudin, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 1884 story of the same name.
But the story behind the name ‘safety match’ is one of industrialists, striking workers, unlikely saviours and one of the first mass media campaigns focussing on a terrible industrial...
