April 7
Posted in White History on Apr 7th, 2012
1827 English chemist John Walker sold the first friction match, which he had invented, from his store. He called his invention “Sulphurata Hyper-Oxygenata Frict”. He would later call them “friction lights”. 1788 A group of American pioneers known as the “first forty-eight” arrived at the mouth of the Muskingum River at the confluence of the [...]