NEW WINDOW
ENGLISH INVENTXON TO MAKE SUBSTANCE FROM TREACLE. Thanks to the invention of an English scientist, it is quite likely that in the future windows, motor-car windscreens, and other transparent articles may he made from treacle. This scientist has developed a method which may prove one of the most important invention's ' f or many years. At the present tinie the world produces more sugar than it can use for food, and one of the great problems is to know whai to do with the surplus. The invention concerns a process by means of which crude sugar in the form of molasses or treacle can he converted into a substance as hard and as transparent as glass. It has, moreover, the valusbA p**operty of passing the health-giving ultra-violet rays which are stopped hy ordinary window glass. The material can be blown, nioulded, or rolled, just like glass. Though some people may be disposed to regard the idea of treacle windows as a joke, the invention is really no more amazing than others which have produced substances of great utility from unlikely materials. The buttons on your coat, for example, are probably made from milk, whilst the shiny panel of your wireless set and the knobs upon it are of bakelite, a material made from the samecarbolic acid we use as a disinfectant.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 248, 10 June 1932, Page 2
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