Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1942 — Page 8

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DRALY KS SET| Swiss Guncotton Is Back of Every Single Shot Fired in World Warll WAL.

BY LEBANON GLUBS By DAVID DIETZ gredient of the smokeless powder nitrate. He found it a good ex-jlose and ‘thus permit greater “ni- black occas : Soripps-Howard Sclsnes Editor that hurls every bullet and shell of plosive. for guns, and named it gun-|tration.” _— v a Tne do st E. IL du Du Bui vio ad studied Wnder AT NOON TOMORROW The Associated: American Syrian| WASHINGTON, Oct. 15-—Every- world war IL - cotton. The following year, 1846,| To make smokeless powder Pont de. Nemours & Co,, now: one the great French chemist, Antoine : Lan ony Hyvar joie hus end of altred Nobel, There 1s 8 Isfend that 0S, Pro ae oo Make: SGKEiSsS De ox iof the Worlds Targest moanutuchuss(-0voisicty decided that he ' could] The past presidents of Mal. sponsor a banquet and bond rally Eh TE aay te tor Een wp bois fond, made ne the|is sometimes called, the guncotton|ers of smokeless powder and other make hesier povder. : Robert Anderson circle 4, W. R. C, Oct. 25 at the Syrian club house, |Tecognize the name of Christian with his wife's cotton apron. Then |; h Samp guncotton produced|is mixed with alcohol and ether, explosives. Among those who encouraged.him will hold a luncheon at noon toe ] y kneaded into a dough and squeezed| Eleuthere Irenee du Pont had ar-|to try was his friend, Thomas Jef-| morrow in the home of Mrs. Edna

© 9245 E. Riverside drive. The dian Frederick Schoenbein? He founded |he rinsed out the apron and hung : , . . e er | 0 peace prizes, but he,’ too, made! it near the stove to dry. Guncotton is made today by treat-{out through a sort of “macaroni”irived in this country on New Year's|ferson, then president of the United |pgyley, 1032 N. Olney st. Assisting hostesses will be Mrs. Mabel Teague,

will be at 1.p. m. and will be fol- | ing cellul ib machin Io i a fundamental contribution to the, The apron, so the legend goes, - cellulose, Gbtained in large part e into long ropes. day, 1800, with his father and broth- |States. Du Pont obtain wed by jan all day open house.{art of war. soon went up in a puff of flame, |from wood pulp, with a mixture of| These are then cut into shortier. Some time later he spent the backing Tenirned = France > ws a, Ettinger, 2sisted by| Prof. Schoenbein, a Swiss chemist,| and that was how guncotton came nitric acid and sulphuric acid. The lengths known as “grains.” day hunting with his friend, Col. machinery, and in 1802 built the|Mrs. Latta Via, Mrs. Evelyn Kose er, | be inlis credited ‘with . having invented |into existence. sulphuric acid acts as a sort of| The advent of smokeless powder | Toussard. A supply of powder which [first du Pont powder mill on the|veach, Mrs. Grace Hoffmeyer, Mrs.

charge of bond sales. M. F. Tamer “ » 3 ~F. guncotton in 1845. Guncotton, or But whatever the circumstances,|“chemical sponge” to, soak up theiand high explosives wrote the|they bought at op was banks randywin Lillian and Mrs ttie is president of the organization. cellulose nitrate, ‘is ‘the chief ine Prof. Schoenbein did make cellulosellast trace of moisture in the cellu-iswan song of. black powder, aly vie _— grade, near no ett, Barr Stephens ra

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