Johan made it possible to mass-produce the safety match.
They called them safety matches.
Bartolo was able to take advantage of this fact by supplying the local population with all and sundry - from safety matches to flour, from buckets of lard to spaghetti.
It is also a component of modern safety matches.
It showed that matches sold as safety matches can be struck on a wide variety of surfaces and offer little or no advantage in this respect over strike-anywhere matches.
In 1926, safety matches had risen to over 6,000,000, while other matches had fallen to 1,600,000.
In 1925, safety matches had risen by about half-a-million to 4,500,000, while other matches remained the same.
There is no evidence to suggest that phosphorus matches present any greater hazard than matches sold as safety matches.
