To enable the German textile industries to compete with those of Lancashire, artificial humidifiers were employed in German factories to impart to the atmosphere the same degree of moistness prevailing in Bngland.
The -researches conducted at the Technological Institute in Dresden showed that in dry air during the process of spinning textile fibres become electrically charged and in this condition cannot be induced to yield on spinning the same high quality of yarn obtained in moist climates.
Special processes were devised to remove the electrical charge from fibres being spun in dry air whereupon it was found that exactly the same results were obtained as in Manchester. In other words, the secret of superlative quality of textiles produced in a moist atmosphere is freedom of the fibres from electrostatic charges since the moisture of the air effects a continuous electric discharge.
There seems therefore reason for expecting that it will soon be posible to produce textiles of a superlae quality everywhere in the world irrespective of climatic conditions.—Trans-Ocean.
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