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German patent for compressed cork consisting in the use of nitrocellulose solution, drawbacks are slow drying, evaporation in vacuo, limited thickness of slabs on cement of irregular evaporation and great cost of raw materials amounting to 8 cents per pound of cork so treated. I showed him my samples and he seemed to recognize advantages as to resiliency and cheapness and simplicity of process. He promised to furnish me with samples of different grades of pulverized cork and I promised him to make Bakalite Cork samples with it and afterwards show him the process.
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They both stayed here until about 11 P.M
Oct 25. Went to N.Y. with Mr. Oppenheimer in his Limousine. Met Prof Ira Woolson at Columbia and asked him to test [[underline]]Bakalized Wood[[/underline]] for me. He seemed much interested in my subject when I showed him Bakalite and told him the wood was impregnated with it. He gave me some black gum to try the process on it.
Spent remainder of morning in Prof. Tuckers laboratory testing conductivity of [[underline]]Graphite-Bakalite.[[/underline]] He too seemed much interested when I showed him my samples.
Went to Wall Street where I was astonished to see mounted police
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