{"id":109603,"date":"2017-12-09T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:43","slug":"first-recorded-sale-of-friction-matches-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/first-recorded-sale-of-friction-matches-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First recorded sale of friction matches, 1827"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:John_Walker_1781-1859.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/53\/John_Walker_1781-1859.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 157px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 122px;\" \/><\/a>On  7th April 1827, John Walker, of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham,  England, sells the first friction matches in his chemist shop to a local  solicitor called Hixon. Walker served his apprenticeship with the  Stockton surgeon Watson Alcock, before learning the druggist trade in  York and Durham. He opened his druggist and chemist shop at 59, High  Street, Stockton in 1819.<\/p>\n<p>His keen interest in chemistry resulted  in his accidental invention of these &#8216;friction lights&#8217;, as he called  them, the year before. He wiped a stick covered with  a mixture of  potassium chlorate and antimony sulphide on his hearth at his home. The  scientist Michael Faraday attempted to persuade Walker to take out a  patent on his invention, but he chose not to claiming that he was a  doctor and not an inventor.<\/p>\n<p>In 1829 a Londoner called Samuel  Jones became the first to commercially exploit the matches. Like Walker  he did not patent the matches or the name by which he marketed them:  &#8216;Lucifers&#8217;. Many other chemists made and sold their own &#8216;Lucifers&#8217; and  the name stuck, much to the annoyance of Walker who so disliked the name  that he stopped selling his own invention during the 1830s.<\/p>\n<p>For more information of John Walker see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stockton.gov.uk\/yourcouncil\/about\/mayor\/halloffame\/johnwalker\/\">Stockton Borough Council website<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7th April 1827, John Walker, of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, England, sells the first friction matches in his chemist shop to a local solicitor called Hixon. Walker served his apprenticeship with the Stockton surgeon Watson Alcock, before learning the druggist trade in York and Durham. He opened his druggist and chemist shop at 59, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}