Charles Sauria
Charles Sauria (1812-1895)
French inventor originating in the Jura, born with Poligny and died with Saint-Lothain.
In 1831, whereas it was yet only student in chemistry, it invented the phosphoric matches with friction by replacing sulfide of Antimoine by the white Phosphore in the formula of John Walker. It is told that it is the memory of an accidental explosion which has occurred during a chemistry experiment in class of second which gave him this idea. But it did not have the 1500 francs necessary to the patent and it is German J.F. Kammerer (sometimes considered wrongly as their true inventor) which was the first to manufacture them industrially the following year. Thereafter, Sauria became country doctor, then turned to agriculture: it created with his brother a agricultural Phalanstère, experimental exploitation in which the resources were shared.
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