Die deutsche Mark von 1914-1924

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Identifikator:: 1764920163

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-145636

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Die deutsche Mark von 1914-1924

Edition:: 35.-50. Tsd.

Place of publication:: Nürnberg

Publisher:: Schuster

Year of publication:: [1925]

Scope:: 64 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK il he wrote on the “germ theory’ before Pasteur and Koch. He was a great admirer of Cobden, who was for a time one of Mercer's commercial travellers. He was a deeply religious man, highly esteemed by the many who knew him. In 1866 he died. He was planning a new kind of reservoir for a dye-house. His foot slipped and he fell in the reservoir. The wetting brought on a severe cold, which in a few weeks proved fatal. He was 76. He lies in the little graveyard at Great Harwood. He was a rugged, strong-featured man, with long hair even in old age. He had heavy eyebrows, a strong nose and square chin. He did not live long enough to know what he had done. He never dreamed-of Artificial Silk, but his inventions prepared the way for it. Other inventors came after him and used his work as a stepping-stone. The Artificial Silk men should never forget what they owe to John Mercer. The man who first used the phrase ‘ Arti- ficial Silk ”” was a Swiss of Lausanne—George Audemars, in 1855; but the first man who 1

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