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Process Techniques for Engineering High-Performance Materials
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Process Techniques for Engineering High-Performance Materials

by Tim Oberle
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
493 pages
15h 30m
English
CRC Press
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64 Process Techniques for Engineering High-Performance Materials
In 1888, the inventor Marvin Stone patented a process for making paper
drinking straws. His vision created a totally new means of forming a tube,
winding a at strip of paper in a spiral wrap on a rotating shaft. A strip of
glue along one edge of the paper prevented it from uncoiling when released.
Coating the tube with parafn wax provided water resistance.
The early drinking straws that Stone improved upon were stalks of natural
straw, which came in limited sizes. Although wax-coated paper had existed
for years, no one used it to make waterproof products in three-dimensional
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