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 I Chardonnet was called * the Father of the Artificial Silk Trade.” This he certainly was not. He might truly be called its ‘ godfather’ or some similar title. He was for a time its best friend and propagandist. But his method of making Artificial Silk— the nitro-cellulose process—has almost en- tirely gone out of use. Only 4 per cent. of all the Artificial Silk made in 1927 was made by his process. The real creators of the trade —the men who solved both the problems of making and marketing—were Henry Green- wood Tetley and Sir Thomas Latham, two of the Directors of Courtaulds. Chardonnet has had more credit than he deserves. Tetley and Latham have had less than they deserve. Chardonnet was a shining, conspicuous figure. He was a Count. He was the only man of hereditary title who has ever had anything to do with the Artificial Silk business. He was a picturesque figure— a man of imposing appearance, with white moustache and side-whiskers. Tetley and Latham, on the other hand, were plain, practical English business men, who were 37

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