SILK FROM BEETLES.
—t GERMAN INVENTION. (BT. CABtE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPtBNJHT.) (AOSTBALIAN ASD K.Z. CABLB ASUOCUTIOX.) .BERLIN, June 20. Myriads of cockshafers, beetles, and even lobsters may in the near future become olot&lcg for •y6m.t:r.Mnd, according to tho iiilni t>2 l s?o2 -r;x? Hoczog and Dr Ifcunick* befir« t3w German Chemioa! Institute. They have discovered a process whereby silk thread can be manufactured from ciiiiia &o organic substance forming the horny part of insects tod crustaciS&. They dissolve the ohitin and spray it into the air, where it forms silk threads of extraordinary strength. It. is suggested that instead of exterminating loonsts and" similar pests it soon will pay to breed them.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18724, 22 June 1926, Page 9
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