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 developed his process and became rich. He had no idea as to the value of his invention. To-day, 10,000,000 tons of wood pulp are made and used every year. Penny news- papers and cheap books have been made possible. The Artificial Silk trade has been made possible—all because a thoughtful man noticed the play of children in 1840 in a small German town. Then, in 1851, John Mercer exhibited his mercerized cotton at the Crystal Palace Exhibition and proved that fibres can be improved—made strong and silk-like—by the use of caustic soda. Five years later, W. H. Perkin discovered the coal-tar dyes. Perkin, too, was a Manchester man. He did his best to sell his dyeing secrets to British manu- facturers. Failing in that, he at last sold them to the Germans and made Germany supreme in dyes. The next great pioneer was Sir Joseph Swan. He was making filaments from parchmentized cotton as early as 1883—a full year before Chardonnet. It was he who first conceived the idea of using cotton pulp and squirting it from a glass tube into methylated spirit.

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