Wealth from Waste
From 1939... IE is so retro
A short excerpt:
SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY: WEALTH FROM WASTE
A short excerpt:SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY: WEALTH FROM WASTE
This is the first of a series of articles on the romance of synthetic chemistry in which science has solved the mystery for turning waste into wealth.
“Don’t throw that away!” This is the battle cry of the great synthetic chemical industry which makes everything from hair-brush handles to T.N.T. from stuff that was once just waste. If you want to buy some perfume, the odds are that the bottle will contain odors extracted from coal tar, once a nightmare to factories who paid people to get rid of it.
[via Modern Mechanix]
posted by chris at 10:41 AM
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That's a fantastic article, great find. This line is a bit unnerving:
"Also calculated to trick the senses are synthetic flavors made from gases and tars which yield solutions that taste like wintergreen, vanilla, pineapples, pears, or strawberries."
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