Show no mirror improvements in more than century when famed german chemist baron justus von liebig made the first modern mirror years ago he poured his new silvering solution from a laboratory beaker on a pane of glass gave humanity the best look at itself it had ever had he also left a formula which U S manufacturers used little changed to turn out some worth of mirrors for thousands of uses from microscopes to cocktail bars in one year the curious fact about the industry was that it had never been able to make a substantial I 1 improvement on liebigh Liebi gs method mett iod in most of the U uj S plants workmen with porcelain pitchers tediously hand poured the liquid on flat plates of glass had to wait a half hour or more for the solution silver ammonium nitrate and rochelle epsom salts to deposit its silver off a train at tangerine fla one day climbed a seamy faced bald ing philadelphia chemist named william peacock he was on his first vacation in 10 years and he figured he had it coming to him for since his last holidays chemist peacock had tried thousands of formulas to modernize liebigh Liebi gs process and he had finally succeeded before he left his one story colonial laboratory on philadelphian Phila delphias main line his process was in use in three big b ig mirror plants and he has visions of some day putting a full length mirror on every bedroom door |