Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 20 | Insects Help to Make Phonograph

I 00 INSECTS INSECTS HELP LP TO TOMAKE TOMAKE TOMAKE MAKE PHONOGRAPH Us How many realize as aa they ten to the he phonographs in their homes homs that the efforts of a n tiny insect Insell working Industriously In the for away ay forests o of India make It possible for the vast phonograph Industry to place the music of the world at t the tho command of tho pub pub- public lie lic Science basing ha failed to produce an effective substitute the phon phonograph Industry must d depend pend upon the Insect known as aa th tho 10 lee lac in- in insect In Insect n- n sect tor for the substance of hilch every contains about t en ten ten- twenty ty per cent I centI I centI dc Toese useful little creatures de- de derise rh rise e their thel name nama from the HIndu which means menns 0 a hun thousand They settle fettle by y the lIon on on the young oung shoo shoots ts of certain I In India and suck r juices which subsequently are cv- cv e c CI In the tho form of ot g yellow substance substance- This substance Is gath- gath gath ed by native natlea ea twice a II vear ear and at after r being PI pleased essed on and straIned through muslin bags Is rolled Into j U thin sheets and told sold as IS shellac j 3 tho the material without which no phonograph record can be made mado satisfactorily It lt acts as a I bind bind- bindI bind I I Ing log agent In the process of making the tho record a S Shellac varies In color from pale I amber to black The palest shel- shel shel a Ins I known no n as orange lac lao Is ox- ox X- X 1 ported every year ear for tor use In the tho manufacture ot roe roe- rec 3 3 0 The lao lac Insect la III affected by byg n adverse verse weather conditions a and heavy Y rain are oro Invariably tol- tol fol followed tola a lowed nd by a decrease In the yield of shellac