John Walker (inventor)
John Walker (29 May 1781 – 1 May 1859) was an English chemist who invented the friction match.
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“For my people lending their strength to the years: to the gone
years and the now years and the maybe years, washing ironing cooking scrubbing sewing mending hoeing plowing digging planting pruning patching dragging along never gaining never reaping never knowing and never understanding;”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)