Cork: Its Origin and Industrial Uses

by Gilbert Erwin Stecher

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Transcriber’s Notes

• Drop capitals at the beginning of the chapters do not appear in every chapter in the original work.
• Footnotes have been renumbered and then moved from bottom of the relevant page to after the Appendix.
• Contents: “Quercus Liber” appears in Contents as a chapter but is typeset in the original work (page 5) as a section. The original work formatting has been retained.
• Contents: “The Tree and Growth” appears in Contents as a chapter but is typeset in the original work (page 12) as a section. The original work formatting has been retained.
• Contents: “Substitutes” appears in Contents as a chapter but is typeset in the original work (page 53) as a section. The original work formatting has been retained.
• Contents: “Waste utilization” appears in Contents as a section but is typeset in the original work (page 68) as a chapter. The original work formatting has been retained.
• Page 5: Vaniçek may be misspelled.
• Page 6: Grammatic may be misspelled.
• Page 32, molecular structure diagram: The right-hand CH₂ groups should be connected.
• Footnote 21: “Etymology of Word” is not found in the original work. The chapter in Contents entitled “Quercus Liber (Linnæus)” et seq. gives the etymology.
• Unmatched quotation marks have been retained. The original work text is shown in curly brackets, { }, and italics for clarity.
  • Page 22: The closing quotation mark for {Again, “It is produced} was not found.
  • Page 41: The quotation mark at {July 1666” After} is apparently used to set off the date from the diary entry. The closing quotation mark for the diary entry is at {junts (old cable),” but}.
  • Page 43: The opening quotation mark for {the British Museum.”} was not found.
  • Page 43: The closing quotation mark for {“The various applications} is possibly at {blacks known in painting.”} on page 53. Otherwise, both quotation marks are likely unmatched.
  • Page 53: The closing quotation mark for {results. “A primitive material} was not found definitively but possibly could be located immediately after {the elements of cork.} on page 54.
• This work has been preserved as in the original, including archaic and inconsistent spelling, punctuation and grammar, except as noted below.
• Changes made to the main text:
  • Preface: (Linneus) changed to (Linnæus).
  • Page 5: Etymologische Worterbuch changed to Etymologisches Wörterbuch.
  • Page 8: korkeiche changed to Korkeiche.
  • Page 11: Farenheit changed to Fahrenheit.
  • Page 16: tree iself, which changed to tree itself, which.
  • Page 32: Cyclohaptanone changed to Cycloheptanone.
  • Page 36: ⁷⁄₁₆ changed to ⁷⁄₁₆″.
  • Page 54: actetone changed to acetone.
  • Page 55: The cork manufacturing chart moved from within the paragraph to immediately below the paragraph.
  • Page 69: insultaing changed to insulating.
  • Footnote 25: “m” signifying metal changed to “M” signifying metal.
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  • Page 4, Church's Laboratory Guide: ‘cloth,’ changed to ‘cloth.’
  • Page 10, Olsen: ‘cloth.,’ changed to ‘cloth.’