Forty Centuries of Ink - Couverture rigide

Carvalho, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0554307286 ISBN 13 : 9780554307282

Editeur : BiblioLife, 2008

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The unfortunate conditions surrounding the almost universal use of the oddly named commercial and with few exceptions record inks, and the so-called modern paper, is the motive for the writing of this book. The numerous color products of coal tar, now so largely employed in the preparation of ink, and the worse material utilized in the manufacture of the hardfinished writing papers, menace the future preservation of public and other records. Those who occupy official position and who can help to ameliorate this increaising evil, should begin to do so without delay. A broad England, Germany and France and at home Massachusetts and Connecticut have sought to modify these conditions by legislation and our National Treasury Department only last year, in establishing a standard for its ink, gives official recognition of these truths. There is no History of I nk; but of ink history there is a wealth of material, although historians have neglected to record information about the very substance by which they sought to keep and transmit the chronicles they most desired to preserve. From the beginning of the Christian era to the present day, Ink literature, exclusive of its etymology, chemical formulas, and methods of manufacture, has been confined to brief statements in the encyclopedias, which but repeat each other.
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