CHAPTER III 
HOW ARTIFICIAL SILK IS MADE 
HE making of Artificial Silk is a new 
process—so new that there are no 
-. words in any language to describe it. 
In order to describe it, I shall have to use old 
words In a new way. 
There are only two lines on Artificial Silk 
in the latest large Dictionary—"‘ Collodion 
made into threads by being forced through 
very small apertures.” Only eleven words to 
describe the most important new industry 
in the world, and this definition is already 
somewhat out of date. 
The making of Artificial Silk is a technical 
process, full of secrets. No outsider is allowed 
to enter a factory where it is being made. 
And no one but a chemist, or rather, one 
chemist out of ten, can understand the tech- 
nical books that have been written on it. 
~ More than this, it is a swiftly changing 
iIndustry—this making of Artificial Silk. What 
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