Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1918 — Man Has Copied Nature’s Work. [ARTICLE]

Man Has Copied Nature’s Work.

Marble, in nature, owes Its crystalline structure to volcanic heat But Ingenious man uses heat to counterfeit the volcanic rocks. By such means, with suitable materials, he makes bricks and crockery, which are artificial rstones. The processes employed in-the manufacture of chinaware are merely workship imitations of those need in the laboratory of nature. Volcanic rock —granite, trap or what not —is the very symbol of imperishability; but the artificial stones (such as brick and chinaware) produced by the fusion of particles under the action of heat are among the most enduring of known substances.