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| Artificial Silk | ||
| A fabric like silk produced entirely without silkworms. |
| Then we discovered behind her a tall man... enveloped in the soft, pliable suit of silk, tinted with prismatic, delicate colors, that everyone, apparently, wore nowadays.
I learned afterwards that artificial silk was made in unlimited quantities by squirting nitrocellulose into a continuously working vacuous space and then reducing it to cellulose by hot sulphydrate of ammonia and pressure, and had taken the place of cotton and woolen goods among the well-to-do. |
| Technovelgy from In the Deep of Time,
by George Parsons Lathrop. Published by Not known in 1897 Additional resources -
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See the discussion of Chardonnet silk in artificial cloth from Ralph 124c 41+ by Hugo Gernsback.
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