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Scientific American, Vol. 96, No. 19 (1907) (1907)

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ment and the place of many hands, automatically transforming The boxes for parlor matches and safety matches are brought, piled pell-mell in great crates, to the the bare wooden splints into perfect matches and are coated on their sides with frictional or chemical women in the boxing room, who fill… … of the illustrations. Women sit at and driven forward by toothed a table on which the frames of : wheels and pawls. Each plate is matches are placed vertically. After unlocking the 2% inches long (in the direction of motion) and 48 compositions on which the matches are to be scratched. frame the…

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