[NB004004], Technical Note, Arthur Coyle Payne, June 2nd, 1887
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Title
[NB004004], Technical Note, Arthur Coyle Payne, June 2nd, 1887
Editor's Notes
20 reg. 16 C.P. bamboo filaments in reg. forms, sealed in glass tube containing Wood-tar (or Pine Tar). Put in sand-bath in Furnace chamber 1 hr. raised temp. from 75 [degrees] to 600 [degrees] Fahr. Heat turned off & as tube was cooling, sealed tip cracked off, allowing gas & tar to escape. At same time, tube cracked in middle beneath sand, alloweing tar to be forced out & sand to enter as cooking went on. Found forms almost clear of tar & fibres nearly dry. To cleanse them of the little tar adhering to them washed them in Benzol. When dried fibres were light brown in color & when broken split up into elementary fibres, the cementing substance being entirely destroyed by the process. When pulled apart or crushed the fibres broke up into a fine woolly mass-- very soft & to all appearances first rate stuff out of which to make paper. Not sent to Lawson or L.E. tests as result showed the process to be N.G. for carbonization."
Author
Date
1887-06-02
Type
Subject
Folder/Volume ID
NB004-F
Microfilm ID
101:589
Document ID
NB004004
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University