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person who has speut hours uyon
hours ssoa eombissaS and rssonbin.
ins the factors VI his probssm has had
the solution thrust upon his attention
b. some casually OF daily life Such
occurrences are the spice OF research
ana isad on many a weary tssestf
gator In hard aaa exacting labor Here
is the fela vhsre the trained obssrv.
er has all the advantage For hox
many fortunes may never have been
realized only because Hs one had eyes
TO behold the revelation.
In our own time every eeet-suear
factory Was confronted with these
two problems: How most cheapiy 20
move the beets from the storage
sheds to the slicers. and hos 20
cleanse the beets from the dirt. small
stones. and rubbish carried from the
earth silos 4 German factory hap.
pened to have a considerable quantity
OF beets piled alongside an open drain
very heavy rainstorm came on. and
when II was over n Was found that the
beets had not only been carried to the
very door OF the factory. but were
cleaned as well From that time on
every factory has flushed its beets
along a pipe from storage to plant and
saved money by combining the two
operations Of transportation and wash
ing
Thomas Kinesford discovered the
process OF making starch from Indian
corn by chance. Starch could be made
from potatoes and from wheat. bet u
had always been found Impossible to
separate cornssarch from the accom-
panvins gluten The wheat starch
methods did not answer kingsford
was mechanic working long hours
and all his experiments were made in
his own kitchen with his wifes pans
tubs. and buckets as his laboratory
utensils
The unsatisfactory result Of one OF
his experiments-a mush OF eOrnmeal
and water-he disgustedly thrsw into
garbage tub A little later his wife
threw into the same tub sone lye
wastes potash solutions) Upon
emptying the tub the next day, kings-
ford was surprised to hnd Q small
amount Of fairly pure starch ct the
bottom. His wife fortunately remem-
bered throwing In the lye, and thus
the basic principle was discovered
Kingsford soon worked out q practical
process for making eorRstarch com
mercially and made . great fortune.
In 1742. Thomas Bols0ves, Q -
chanic Of Shefield discovered The -
OF silver-plating He was repairino
the handle of knife IN which both
copper and silver were usel Aeo4-
dentally the two metals were fuoel
together Based upon this observatbsa
he developed the neW process. Upsa
thick ingot Of copper - bound ~
iron wire q thinner ineot Of silvss
The whole was then heated IN . -
verberatory furnace until the edges 0f
the silver insot were observed to -
gin to melt. The two ingots vees
then removed from the furnace. slowly
cooled and picked. cleaael and rogssl
10 the desired thickness. The reoult
was . plate OF copper more or Dsos
thiniy covered with silver on one ~.
This wss the hrst sheNell plate. For
nifty years following. the copper vas
plated on one side only. and the cut
edges showed the coppsr Later. the
process was ~ perfected that no CO.,
per was left exposed. An the silver
plate Of the world wss male by tAis
process. until electroplafing was 1is-
covered and made commercial