WHO GAVE US “SILK STOCKINGS”?
Most of the credit for the idea e& manufacturing artificial siik goes ta France, and the honour has usually been given to Reaumur, • a French naturalist. Actually, the first -known suggestion was made by an Englishman Dr\ Robert Hook. In 1664 he published a book, “Micrographia,” m .which ho described a microscopic examination of real silk, and suggested the possibility of producing a similar thread by mechanical means. The first machine to produce an artificial thread was made in England.. .Tn 1840, "Mr Louis Schwabe took out the first patent ana erected his machine, embodying spinnerettes, in Manchester, but the product failed to attract, and Schwabe committed suicide three years later. To-day the epinnerette is in full use, and £135,000,000 is invested in the in* dustry in England alone.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6899, 3 May 1929, Page 2
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