Safety Matches

Safety Matches

At that time, only one type of match existed, the wooden strike anywhere that is sometimes called the "kitchen" match today. The discovery of red or amorphous phosphorus by Prof.

Anton von Schrotter in 1845 led to the development of another type of match, the safety, by Lundstrom ten years later. The safety match differs from the strike anywhere only in one regard: part of the ingredients necessary to create fire are in the head of the safety match, part in the striking surface on the box.