NIELS SØRENSEN
1846 - 1849
Søndergade 47a, Rønne
Niels Sørensen (1804 - 1850),
art smith
Niels Sørensen has probably started his production of matches in
the first half of the 1840s , but as late as in 1846 he seeks
Chamber of Customs and Commerce College for exclusive rights to
manufacture his unique sticks that characterizes itself by not
absorbing moisture or be so self-igniting as other
makes.
He has
had put them in the open air for 24 hours in wet weather and put
them in water for half an hour without having harmed them .
The trick in his invention i s that, he puts the spark substance
deep and the fuel outside in contrast to the usual sticks, where
it is vice versa.
Niels Sorensen wrote in his application that his ignition fabric
consists of ½ pound of phosphorus, 1 tablespoon turpentine oil,
1 let flowers of sulfur and 2 let potash dissolved in 1 pound of
gum arabic and 1 pot of water , while the fuel is composed of
sulfur with the addition of turpentine and resin .
The Polytechnic College , who always was be consulted on
concessions and patents found that the method had not been seen
before, so the 19th of
January 1847 Niels Sørensen got his appropriation .
Niels Sørensen died, however, of nephritis in 1850 and after
then the manufacturing stops.
