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wanted to examine it.  Then as they found it was n.g. Story another employee of Swinburne took matter up and elaborated his own process.  This too did not work in practice.  Then they found the advantage of using NaOH as set forth by Claypoole patents.  Neither Claypoole nor Story are chemists.  Claypoole = electrician; Story is a mathematician.  R. says Braun gave up process because could not use the material. Tried to use it in same way as rubber.  Did his mixing on roller mixers - Seems to have looked the wrong way and I begin to perceive why my predecessors were not successful.  Too onesided and did not look away from practical commercial standpoint.  Then they all use too much alkali which binds a disturbing amount of H2O. None seems to be impressed yet with the great importance of my broad claim of heat and pressure.  It appears my [[strikethrough]] fibr [[/strikethrough]] impregnation patents were overlooked because not published in class of chemicals or of plastics!  This explains much.  None seems to realize yet the importance of  fibrous  materials as fillers.  All this is very interesting information for me.  I listened until 4 P.M then invited Ryberg to [[Bauerkeller?]] to take lunch with me and there kept him interrogating further.  This interview is very important for me.  I paid him voluntarily his traveling expenses 30 Mks.!  Never were 30 mks better spent.  Says Luft material was too brittle  As to Story one had always to be on the alert on account of material "gelatinizing" at wrong moment. - I turned this defect in as advantage by my intermediate B process!  Shrinkage during casting and inability of big pieces all defects as
[[written vertically in margin]] I have described in my first paper.  Ryberg thinks 2% NaOH helps all this: he is mistaken 2% is too much and retains too much water.  He himself admits mass in brittle.  Quite naturally. They never reached stage C.  I believe they all got lured away with their pouring methods (Continued on Supplement to IIII)[[/marginal entry]]
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N.B. In writing these notes I finished several times a double page. In order to cram in accumulated material I continue, rewriting this Journal on those pages I have overlooked. 
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