ON THE FABRICATION OF

MATCHES, GUN COTTON, COLORED FIRES

AND

FULMINATING POWDERS.

BY

Professor H. DUSSAUCE, Chemist,

Lately of the Laboratories of the French Government, viz., the Mining,
Botanical Garden, the Imperial Manufacture of the Gobelins,
the Conservatoire Impériale of Arts and Manufactures;
Professor of Industrial Chemistry to the Poly-
technic Institute, Paris.

PHILADELPHIA:

HENRY CAREY BAIRD,

INDUSTRIAL PUBLISHER,

406 Walnut Street.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
HENRY CAREY BAIRD,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA:

COLLINS, PRINTER.

PREFACE.

IN 1830, the fabrication of matches was not yet, properly speaking, a special industry. It was limited to a few poor families, who not having the means to purchase in any quantity the materials necessary to the fabrication, were forced to sell, from day to day, the product of their labor in order to be able to purchase new material.

The want of a machine which would eco ́nomically manufacture wooden matches presented an insurmountable barrier to the development of that industry.

The work was done by hand, with imper