Hungarian Inventors Series- János Irinyi Safety Matches szent-györgyi Aluminium waterbottle with screenprinted Budapest

Aluminium waterbottle with screenprinted Budapest graphic and carabiner by Eszter Kiss

A smaller 9-piece set for easier challenges

but nevertheless highly significant inventions conceived by our compatriots who made their outstanding scientific achievements either in Hungary or abroad

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Hungarian Inventors Series- János Irinyi Safety Matches szent-györgyi Aluminium waterbottle with screenprinted BudapestJnos Irinyi Inventor of the safety matches Did you know? Jnos Irinyi studied chemistry at the Vienna Polytechnic. After watching an unsuccessful experiment by his professor, Paul Meissner, Irinyi had an idea as to how to create a quiet, safe match. Instead of using potassium chlorate to ignite white phosphorus, he used lead dioxide in the head of the match. By making this change, he produced the ancestor of the modern safety match. The package