Hans Andreas Reuter
1842 - 1843
Gothersgade 138, København
I
n 1842
m
echanic
Hans Andreas
Reuter
searched
for
permission to
establish a
friction match factory,
as he has
previously
fabricated
special
tin
der boxes using platin.
Reuter
,
which is relatively
impecunious
,
can
not immediately
say where
he intends
to
place
the
factory.
But when he
gets
the grant and
his citizen
letter
the
31st of
December 1842
,
he moved
into the side
building
in the ground floor
to the
left
in the courtyard of
Gothersgade
138
His factory
wa
s small
with 2 boys
employee
and an
output of 200
tinder boxes
in
brass,
20-30
dozen in
metal holsters
and about
100 gros
in boxes
.
For this
production
he consumes
about 100
pounds
of sulfuric
acid
, glassware
20-30
rd
,
20
pound
brass,
100
pound
zinc
, 4 -
5 pounds
phosphorus
and
8-9
pounds
of sulfur.
