biography
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| lived:
| (c.1781–1859)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, NE England, UK. He became a chemist, and in 1827 made the first friction matches, called by him ‘Congreves’ (alluding to William Congreve's rocket). They were later named lucifers, and eventually matches. |
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