Deutsche Geschichte: Urzeit und Mittelalter

The story of artificial silk

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Identifikator:: 1892063557

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Deutsche Geschichte

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Gaertner

Year of publication:: 1891-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1892064901

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238006

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Urzeit und Mittelalter

Volume count:: Abt. 1

Place of publication:: Freiburg im Breisgau

Publisher:: Heyfelder

Year of publication:: 1904

Scope:: XIX, 488 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Zwölftes Buch

Collection:: Economics Books

THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK a book and sell for 12s.,” says Roger W. Babson, speaking of the future development of Artificial Silk. This is now only an idea. But in five years it may be a fact. Clothing has evolved. For hundreds of thousands of years, the human race wore bark and feathers and skins. Then they wore homespun wool. Then linen came in, for the rich only. Then came cotton and gave the world cheap clothes. Silk was only for the rich few. And now comes Artificial Silk, for rich and poor alike, with infinite possibilities such as no other textile has ever had. It is now known that Artificial Silk will create a boon in the chemical trades. It has given the chemical companies an unexpected new customer, needing thousands of tons of chemicals a year. It will create a boom in the making of textile machinery as well. New types of machines are now wanted. Many that are now in use are makeshifts, adapted from cotton mills. This new yarn, that can be spun in two-mile lengths, requires new ma- chines for the weaving of it. It offers a great opportunity for inventors—for the Ark- ITA

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