Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1892 — How Celluloid Is Made. [ARTICLE]

How Celluloid Is Made.

Tho base of celluloid is common paper. By action of sulphuric and nitric acid it is changed to gun cotton; then dried, ground and mixed with >om 20 to 40 per cent, of camphor, .iter which it is ground fine, colored with powder colors, cast in sheets, pressed very hard, and at last baked between sets of super-heated rollers. Myron Jii.son, of Whittingham, Vt.. is a nice and promising young fellow. He is only 18, but he stancU six feet ten inches. The Bucolics of Virgil were written between 43 and 47.