Show artificial SILK MERE IMITATION OF REAL THING the news that the world famous firm of courtault com Court auld is to bull build d more artificial silk factories in lancashire conies canies at an appropriate time for this year is the 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 brou brought lit 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 stones by rubbing out fibers from the stones on a grin grindstone d who gave a german weaver the idea of the mechanical mechanic banica cl 1 production of wood pulp today woo wood I 1 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 was another step towards art artificial silk fifteen years later then count hilaire aire de chardonnet watching g 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 nitro bellu lose which lie he squirted through it tiny holes into heated air as a silkworm exudes its gummy silk substance this gave him filaments of a stuff he hoped to weave in 1884 he patented this process but the french government would not allow him to manufacture because ills his silk was highly inflammable for five years he worked to remove this clan danger er then followed two years of experiments to overcome production difficulties but by 1891 artificial silk was being made tod today a y its manufacture is one of our greatest industries london tit bits |