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portada Fire in Your Pocket: How the Match Made Fire Instant, Portable, and Personal (Hidden Histories of Modern Life)
Type
Physical Book
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Author
Language
English
Pages
106
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9798172093647

Fire in Your Pocket: How the Match Made Fire Instant, Portable, and Personal (Hidden Histories of Modern Life)

Carden, Julian R. (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

Fire in Your Pocket: How the Match Made Fire Instant, Portable, and Personal (Hidden Histories of Modern Life) - Carden, Julian R.

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Synopsis "Fire in Your Pocket: How the Match Made Fire Instant, Portable, and Personal (Hidden Histories of Modern Life)"

For most of human history, having fuel did not mean having fire. A household could have wood, candles, a stove, and still need to preserve an ember, borrow a flame from a neighbor, or rebuild fire with tools and practiced skill. Then a tiny disposable object changed the practical meaning of ignition. Fire in Your Pocket tells the surprising history of the match—and of how fire became something people could carry, store, buy cheaply, and summon in seconds. From early friction matches and dangerous phosphorus chemistry to mass production, matchboxes, safety strikers, industrial disease, consumer habits, and international regulation, Julian R. Carden follows the long process that turned future flames into an ordinary retail product. The story reveals why a match had to become not only easy to light, but cheap enough, reliable enough, portable enough, and safe enough for millions of people to stop thinking about ignition as a problem at all. Along the way, the book shows how convenience often hides preparation: every effortless strike depends on chemistry, machinery, labor, packaging, distribution, and design completed long before the match reaches your hand. A hidden history of one of the smallest technologies ever to reorganize everyday life—and of the moment fire began waiting in your pocket.

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