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 Fim ¥ — actually made it by the squirting process was an Englishman— Joseph Wilson :Swan. He took out his patent in 1883. “ £1 ee He squeezed a mixture of wood and ‘cotton pulp through small holes and made a thread of it. He did more than this. He actually made Artificial Silk woven goods and showed them at the Inventions Exhibition in London in 1885. It is very necessary to remember this fact, as many writers are now giving the credit to a Frenchman, Count Hilaire de Chardonnet, as the first maker of Artificial Silk. Chardonnet did not begin his experiments until 1884, a year after Swan had taken out his patent. He did not show any Artificial Silk goods until 1889, at the Paris Exhibition. But Swan was a plain, unknown English- man. He received no notice and no honours from the British Government, but the French Government awarded Chardonnet the Grand Prix and made him a Knight of the Legion of Honour Swan received no encouragement from anyone. He battled on and laid the solid 25

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