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:: The hygienic value of artificial silk clothing

Collection:: Economics Books

THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK phernalia of Medical Science, but the whole of it does not atone for what we have lost by the diminution of sunlight and fresh air. We human beings are children of the Sun. The sunlight that comes to us through 93,000,000 miles of space is our source of life. Lt is filtered through 100 miles of atmosphere and smoke and dust and cloud. It is not pure when it reaches us, but it is the power whereby we live. It is an extraordinary fact that we knew nothing about the composite nature of sun- light until two centuries ago. Sir Isaac Newton discovered it. He showed us for the first time the marvel of the spectrum. Then, in 1801, Ritter discovered the Ultra- Violet rays—the invisible rays of shortest wave-length. About 1850, Arnold Rickli, an Austrian, started the first Sunlight Clinic at Veldes, in Austria. He amazed the doctors by his success in healing diseases. In 187%, Dr. Downes and Dr. Blunt read papers on the healing power of Ultra-Violet rays before the Royal Society. In 18go, Koch proved that the bacilli of tuberculosis are killed by these rays. They are killed in D4

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