Philosophy
Joshua Pusey
March 27th, 1842 to May 8th, 1906
Sort of a disappearing product.
In 1892, book matches were patented by Joshua Pusey of Lima, Ohio, No. 483165. He subseqerntly sold the patent rights to the Diamond Match Company of Barberton, Ohio. The Diamond Match Company was formulated as a conglomerate and built by absorbing a number of smaller match manufacturing companies. They were also the first company involved in book match making of any significance. In 1895, production exceeded 150,000 matchbooks a day. Diamond's objective was to produce a quality matchbook for sale to the public (not given freely as was traditional fifty years later). The first Diamond matchbooks assembled were a dangerous and flimsy novelty, but they were improved. Later, they were sold to companies and carried their advertising.
Joshua Pusey [Wikipedia]
The Diamond Match Company [Wikipedia]
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Philosophy
Joshua Pusey and matchbooks
Joshua PuseyMarch 27th, 1842 to May 8th, 1906
Sort of a disappearing product.
In 1892, book matches were patented by Joshua Pusey of Lima, Ohio, No. 483165. He subseqerntly sold the patent rights to the Diamond Match Company of Barberton, Ohio. The Diamond Match Company was formulated as a conglomerate and built by absorbing a number of smaller match manufacturing companies. They were also the first company involved in book match making of any significance. In 1895, production exceeded 150,000 matchbooks a day. Diamond's objective was to produce a quality matchbook for sale to the public (not given freely as was traditional fifty years later). The first Diamond matchbooks assembled were a dangerous and flimsy novelty, but they were improved. Later, they were sold to companies and carried their advertising.
Joshua Pusey [Wikipedia]
The Diamond Match Company [Wikipedia]
- Guns, Germs & Steel - Tropics
For the past three decades, historian Jared Diamond has been studying the historical reasons that might be able to explain human inequality in our own time. In the first episode of this series, Diamond discovered that although our species originally came...
- David Henderson Houston...patent Number 248,179...october 11th, 1881
A significant patent was granted to David Houston on this day 129 years ago--photographic roll film. Online Artist Archive of North Dakota by Ben Nemenoff Although not a photographer himself and virtually unknown today, David Houston made some of the...
- Conrad Hubert [akiba Horowitz] And The "flashlight"
Conrad Hubert [Akiba Horowitz] April 15th, 1856 to March 12th, 1928 Today is the birthdate of Conrad Hubert [Akiba Horowitz] and a name few have heard and know for a product that every household has stuffed in a kitchen drawer. No, not the can opener...
- Yes, The Diamond Issue Again
"Diamond Sales, and Prices, Plunge" by Julia Werdigier February 21st, 2009 New York Times LONDON — Diamonds may be forever, but apparently diamond buyers are more fickle. Tiffany, the famed jewelry chain on Fifth Avenue in New York, is struggling...
- Deceased--h. Tracy Hall
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