Synthetic Fibers: Machines and Equipment, Manufacture, Properties 
Subtitle: Handbook for Plant Engineering, Machine Design, and Operation
Publisher: Hanser Gardner Publications
Published: November 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 885
ISBN-13: 9781569902509
Subjects: Textiles & Polymers; Textile Industries; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Textile fibers, Synthetic; Engineering - Industrial; Engineering - Mechanical; Manufacturing
First sentence: Natural fibers, especially wool and natural silk, have existed for several thousand years, soon to be followed by cotton, flax and the like.