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

“HE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK pression that has been given by this very faulty and biassed Report. As we have seen, the very first conception of Artificial Silk was given to the world by an Englishman—Robert Hooke, who was born in 1635. Then, in 1840, two men—an Englishman and a German—made the first practical experiments. The name of the Englishman was Louis Schwabe, and the name of the German was F. G. Keller. Schwabe was a Manchester man, who had silk mills in Portland Street. He was a very able and inventive man. Also, he was a prosperous manufacturer. He made silks for Queen Victoria and the French Court. He was determined to find a substance that could be drawn through fine holes into fila- ments. In 1842 he asked the British Associ- ation to help him to find such a substance, but the scientists of those days gave him no answer. To tell the truth, they did not know what he was talking about. Schwabe persevered and actually made filaments out of various kinds of pulp. He 30

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