Show inv atlon of matches france ie Is about to honor with a statue the man who ho did not invent It telfer matches mat cht in 1830 it seems al moulet Ni culet professor of chemistry at dole in the juranas Ju jura was illuminating before hie his clas class the explosive properties of chlorate of potash when it struck one of his pupils charles sauria by oame name that combination of phosphorus with the detonating chemical might furnish a far more satisfactory p eans of kind ling a I 1 A alre jr than the old flint dint and steel he ile ft set to work upon the problem and his experiments and those of his friends were attended with success A year or two afterwards M nicolet visited austria and fave gave the discovery away to german manufacturers without wishing to rob ai M sauria of the posthumous a alor 1037 7 which appear appears to be the only reward of his ingenuity patriot ial compels us to claim the merit a of being the real inventor for our own nation mr talker of stockton by the uie use of chlorate of potash as olphide of at anUl antimony nony was making friction matcha a as early as 1829 1929 young sauria very likely never heard of at his process but the germans certainly did and it was ft from his bits or original ginal nal idea that their trad sprang up and i |