Word: liebig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When famed German Chemist Baron Justus von Liebig made the first modern mirror 105 years ago, he poured his new silvering solution from a laboratory beaker on a pane of glass, gave humanity the best look at itself it had ever had.* He also left a formula which U. S. manufacturers used last year, little changed, to turn out some $50,000,000 worth of mirrors for thousands of uses from microscopes to cocktail bars. The curious fact about the industry was that it had never been able to make a substantial improvement on Liebig's method. In most...
...Tangerine, Fla., one day last week, climbed a seamy-faced, balding Philadelphia chemist named William Peacock. He was on his first vacation in ten years and he figured he had it coming to him. For since his last holidays Chemist Peacock had tried thousands of formulas to modernize Liebig's process, and he had finally succeeded. Before he left his one-story Colonial laboratory on Philadelphia's Main Line his process was in use in three big mirror plants (Nurre; Binswanger & Co.; Hires Turner), and he had visions of some day putting a full-length mirror on every...