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Identifier: creosotedtimer00norf (find matches)
Title: Creosoted timer
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Norfolk creosoting company. (from old catalog)
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ployed by the ancientEgyptians. The results of their processes have lastedthrough centuries and have absolutely proved the value ofantiseptics for the preservation of animal and vegetablematter. When Pettigrew succeeded in withdrawing bymaceration the preservative from the heart of a mummyembalmed three thousand years before, the heart at oncebegan to putrify ; a striking proof of the efficacy of the sub-stances employed for its preservation, and that the im-munity from decay was not due to an absolute chemicaltransformation. The Naphthalene of Dead Oil is to modern wood preserva-tion what the Oil of Bitumen was to the preservation ofanimal matter, and it is of these important processes that theNorfolk Creosoting Company speaks through the pages ofthis book to those whose interests make wooden structuresdesirable. The processes described represent the bestmodern practice in America and Europe, as developed andelaborated since Dead Oil of Coal Tar came into use as atimber preservative.
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CREOSOTED TIMBER—ITS PREPA-RATION AND USES- THE DESTRUCTIVE TEREDO. Many who are familiar with the name and destructivework of the teredo, or ship-worm, are ignorant of thatmollusks history, of the method of its construction, and ofthe principles involved in its operations. The following es-say, compiled from various sources, on this bivalve covers theground in a manner that will, perhaps, prove satisfactoryalike to scientific and unscientific inquirers. The teredo may have been hatched from one of a millioneggs from the same parent. In the earliest period of itsactive life it is a free swimmer ; its body is at that time al-most if not entirely contained within a bivalve shell; it haseyes, and it has what is called a foot, a soft, muscular mem-ber projecting slightly from the body ; it is also providedwith two siphon tubes, side by side and opening in the samedirection, through one of which it takes in food and waterand through the other it ejects its waste. At this stage of itsexis

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