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John Smith · January 2nd 11, 10:15 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

On 1/2/2011 1:26 PM, wrote:
Do you know who Invented that Rayon? I Know.
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THIS:
"Rayon
Rayon was the first manufactured fiber developed, it made from wood or
cotton pulp and was first known as artificial silk. The Swiss chemist,
Georges Audemars invented the first crude artificial silk around 1855,
by dipping a needle into liquid mulberry bark pulp and gummy rubber to
make threads. The method was too slow to be practical.

In 1884, a French chemist, Hilaire de Charbonnet, Comte de Chardonnay,
patented an artificial silk that was a cellulose-based fabric known as
Chardonnay silk." Pretty but very flammable, it was removed from the market.

In 1894, British inventors, Charles Cross, Edward Bevan, and Clayton
Beadle, patented a safe a practical method of making artificial silk
that came to be known as viscose rayon. Avtex Fibers Incorporated first
commercially produced artificial silk or rayon in 1910 in the United
States. The term "rayon" was first used in 1924."

FROM HE
http://inventors.about.com/library/i...s/blfabric.htm

Regards,
JS