INCOMBUSTIBLE PAPER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 36, 10 January 1884, Page 3

INCOMBUSTIBLE PAPER.

At a meeting of the French Socidtd d’Encouragement pour I’lndustrie nationale, M. G. Meyer, of Paris, submitted specimens of paper specially manufactured to resist fire. It was stated by him that the papers and documents shown had been for four hours in a retort in a pottery-furnace, and it is further affirmed that those present were unable to distinguish, either by appearance or texture, the papers so treated from others which had not undergone the ordeal of fire. From experiments made with a specimen of wallpaper sent to ns, we are enabled to say that, although the appearance of the paper does change, the fire-resisting properties claimed for it are undoubted; the paper certainly does not ignite. The paper, we are informed, can be made of a quality suitable for deeds and other important documents, or of a quality suitable for wall-paper, theatrical decorations, or, in fact, for any purpose for which paper is used. M. Meyer has also invented an incombustible ink and incombustible colors. Artists using those colors may S reserve their works to a certain extent, But >e invention would appear to be of the greatest value to theatrical managers. By using thick cardboard of M. Meyer’s material, together with his paints, they are able to render their scenery uninflammable. At the same time, for documents of importance, deeds, wills, and agreements, the invention should come into universal use.