Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Subjects:

Military Technology, Invention, Narcotics, Measurement

    Reports on Christian F Schönbein's invention of a process for giving 'papier-mache all the transparency of glass'. Regards the invention as opportune owing to the rapid sinking of ale and wine bottles 'under that mysterious internal disorder' that makes quarts of the present shrink into the pints of the eighteenth century. Text and illustration explore the disastrous effect of making bottles, glasses, and mirrors from Schönbein's material. Believes the material will give employment to 'much of the bad paper now afloat in the market'.