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Cork: Being the story of the origin of cork, the processes employed in its manufacture & its various uses in the world to-day

Armstrong Cork Company· 2 chapters· 4,388 words

Few things in general use in the great world to-day have the hall-mark of approval of two thousand years set upon them. New materials, new processes, new commodities have followed the train of advancing civilization and the ensuing multiplication and alteration of man’s econom...

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1. Part 1

Few things in general use in the great world to-day have the hall-mark of approval of two thousand years set upon them. New materials, new processes, new commodities have follow...

2. Part 2

But the manufacture of corks and of all these other articles involves waste, and waste to an extent little dreamed of. In producing corks, for instance, fully sixty-five per cen...