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Show Building lloiiaea of Paper The utilization of paper in the arts of industry and construction presents a notable example in the recent erection erec-tion of a new Hamburg hotel, in northern north-ern Germany, tho structure beint; built entire of paper boards compressed to the hardness of wood. One advantage of special importance attributed to this novel description of building material ma-terial is the circumstances that, by being impregnated with certain chemical chem-ical solutions, it can be made absolutely abso-lutely fire proof; the same process of treatment also secures it against the attacks of destructive insects, and might thus specially recommond it for use in certain river valleys in the tropics, trop-ics, wood-eating ants having been known to demolish large frame buildings build-ings in less than a month. For some time past a firm at Dresden has successfully suc-cessfully engaged in the manufacture of tool handles and shafts from compressed com-pressed paper chemically prepared, the articles being not only very hard and firm, but possessing the quality of being non-conductors of heat. Another An-other German firm is making pulleys of pasteboards pressed by hydraulic power, having an iron core and strong casing, and are supposed to take up less room, generate less friction, and are water proof. |