Show artificial SILK MERE IMITATION OF REAL THING if the news that the world famous firm of courtault Court auld Is to build more artificial silk factories in lancashire comes at an appropriate time for this year Is the file fiftieth anniversary of the registration of the first patent of a process for producing artificial silk on a commercial scale in those fifty years a revolution in clothes has taken place the output figures prove its extent in 1891 the total production of the new wonder fabric was about pounds today it Is in the region of pounds like most great inventions artificial silk was brought about by strokes of luck and much patient work on the part of several men over a period of years it was some children making chains of cherry stories stones by rubbing out fibers from the file stones on a grindstone who gave a german weaver the idea of the rl production of wood pulp today wood pulp Is the origin of viscose artificial silk for your stockings really come from trees the invention of guncotton or to give it the scientific name nitro cel julese was another step towards artificial silk fifteen years later then count hilaire de chardonnet watching silkworms noted the way they made their silk and tried to imitate the process artificially using the pulp of mulberry trees he made cellulose then ditro bellu lose which he squirted through tiny holes into heated air as a silkworm exudes its gummy silk substance this gave him filaments of a he hoped to weave in 1884 he patented this process but the french government would not allow him to manufacture because his silk was highly inflammable for five years lie he worked to remove this danger then followed two years of experiments to overcome production difficulties but by 1691 artificial silk was being made today its manufacture Is one of our greatest industries london tit bits |