The story of artificial silk

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Identifikator:: 1765923751

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-146069

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Casson, Herbert Newton http://d-nb.info/gnd/118814435

Title:: The story of artificial silk

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Efficiency Magazine

Year of publication:: [1928]

Scope:: xiii S., S. 17 - 130

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: How artificial silk was invented and marketed

Collection:: Economics Books

THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK made a scanty living. They were very pOOT. When young John was nine, his father died. John went to work as a bobbin-boy. He never had any schooling, although he eventu- ally became one of the most learned men in Great Britain. He was fond of reading, and he found several good friends among his fellow-workers, who gave him lessons in the evening. When he was 16, he was struck with the beautiful orange colour of a dress worn by his little step-sister. At once, he resolved to be a dyer. He spent all his spare money, which was not much, for dyes. Soon after- wards, he became an apprentice in a dye- shop. At 23, he married Mary Wostenholme. On his way to buy a wedding licence, he stopped at an old bookstall and bought a book that shaped his career—" THE CHEMICAL PockET-Booxk,” by James Parkinson. This old and forgotten book was published in 1803. It set Mercer on fire to try new experiments in producing beautiful colours. 0

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