Word: collodion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of shatterproof glass was born in 1903 when a French chemist, Edouard Benedictus, knocked a bottle containing dried collodion from a shelf. The bottle cracked but the fragments did not spatter. Benedictus concluded that they were held together by the collodion film. He got a patent in 1914 but the first shatterproof glass did not appear in automobiles until...
...image of any brightly lighted object at which it was pointed, was widely used by inept amateur painters. Other interesting pieces of apparatus: a complete outfit for sensitizing, exposing and developing daguerreotype plates; a portable darkroom for sensitizing the next great improvement over the daguerreotype, the messy short-lived collodion plates with which such photographers as Matthew Brady were able to make a fairly complete record of the Civil War (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931); the first Eastman Kodak, which took 100 two-inch pictures on a strip of sensitized paper, then had to be sent to the factory...
Making rayon out of nitrocellulose is a delicate chemical process involving the use of ether, alcohol and acids. A sudden shut-down at Hopewell ruined not only the material being processed but collodion solidified in the pipe lines and spinning pumps, and the acids ate into the neglected machinery...
...Chancy whose niche in the cinema he is trying hard to inherit, keeps his pressagent busy estimating the amount of time he expends in putting on makeup. For The Mummy, Karloff's preparations took eight hours. He dampened his face, covered it with strips of cotton, applied collodion and spirit gum, pinned his ears back, covered his head with clay, painted himself with 22 kinds of greasepaint, then wound himself up like a top in bandages which had been rotted in acid and roasted. It is a pity that these energetic preliminaries preceded a horror picture which contains only...
...winning model, owned by Herbert Owen of New Britain, Conn., had an enormous advantage of lightness. It weighed only .03 oz. Instead of Japanese tissue, its wing was made of "microfilm," a transparent, opalescent substance that looks something like Cellophane. It is made from a nitrocellulose fluid base (e.g. collodion, bronzing liquid, etc.) that-floats on' water in a gossamer layer, dries in a sheet about one-eighth the weight of superfine tissue. The winner was awarded the Sportsman Pilot Cup, originally posted by Sportsman Pilot (monthly) for a race which did not come off in the National...