From the cradle to the grave, we are using synthetic plastic materials—from the "bone" of a baby's comforter to the modern synthetic coffin, Synthetic plastic materials have enormous advantages over the natural ones, since they are always of uniform quality, are lighter and stronger.
Vast nse is made of plastic materials in every branch of the electrical industry, Plastic counter-tops are proving very serviceable in milk and snack bars, as they will not ring-mark when wet cups, plates or glasses are put on them.
Plastics are used for street names and for labels in the zoos at Regent Park and Whipsnade.
They are bringing one-time luxuries within everyone's reach, In a showcase containing samples of personal and household articles, I saw a travelling razor-set, golf-tees, brushes, combs, mirrors and buttons, toy train-lines, teeth, and a moulded sugar castor, over which the thinnest coating of silver plate had been spun.
Mass-produced wireless sets have only been made possible through the development of the plastic industry.
The first commercial production of synthetic resin was in 1910, following the discovery of a German, Dr, Leo Bakeland, but it was not till after the war that the industry developed.
Latest discovery is perspex, the glass-like synthetic material which is now being widely used for windows in aeroplanes. It is highly transparent, very light and non-inflammable, It forms the "glass" in the beaver tail of the observation coach on the INER. "Coronation" Scottish express, Captain Eyston's "Thunderbolt," in which he broke the world's speed record, had a windscreen of perspex.
Perspex is now being successfully used to mould lenses for spectacles and cameras. ensued showed that she was no lady. She objected strenuously to my intrusion on the other, as my signals were jamming a QSO with a gentleman-bird across the way. She asked me what I was going to do about it and as I had made no plans, easily wrecked the set with a particularly nasty thought she sent at me. Disheartened, I devoted myself to, and shall continue to do so in the future, to the effect of typewriter hammers-cum-ribbon on empty sheets of paper.
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