Word: tablecloth
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Asbestos, "the incombustible" (translated from the Greek word for "unquenchable") is a fibrous mineral substance known technically as chrysotile. Its property of resistance to heat made it a curiosity long ago. Charlemagne was said to have had a tablecloth of it; Eskimos used it for lamp-wicks. Mined from veins in the earth, white or gray horn-blende-asbestos may have fibres five or six feet long, but brittle. Serpentine-asbestos has shorter fibres, yellow or greenish, of great tensile strength and elasticity. Canada (near Quebec) is a great source. The rock is quarried, cobbed by hand, dried, crushed, rolled...