"Acid process" Quotes from Famous Books
... great ugly brick buildings, their windows festooned with dust webs. Some of them boasted high detached tower-like structures where a secret acid process went on. In the early days the mills had employed many workers, but newly invented machinery had come to take the place of hand labor. The rag-rooms alone still employed hundreds of girls who picked, sorted, dusted over the great suction bins. The rooms in which ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... extended litigation over the acid process patents, the points at issue related to the strength of the acid named in the various specifications and also to the methods of applying steam. Prof. Charles F. Chandler, called as an expert in one case, testified that the effects of acids, such as sulphuric or hydrochloric, upon rubber and rubber ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 • Various |