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 came Cross and Bevan and many others. They created the Viscose process. They made new machines. They reduced the waste. They invented new baths for the pulp. They developed the whole process in all its details. And nine out of ten of these men were English. In gb per cent. of the Artificial Silk industry there is no invention or improvement that was due to Chardonnet. Both in its earliest beginnings, and in its latest development, the creators of the Artificial Silk trade have been English. The first men who actually made VISCOSE Silk, such as you may now see in any drapery shop, were three Englishmen—C. F. Cross, E. J. Bevan and C. Beadle. They took out their patent in 1892. Theyinvented the word“ Viscose,” which is now universally used. Strangely enough, they were not trying to make Artificial Silk. Their aim was to make a better filament for electric globes. They aimed at one trade and hit another. The two Swiss chemists, the Dreyfus brothers, came into the search about 1890. 13

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