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A New Incendiary

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
November
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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The New York Journal of Commerce has the following : We desire to cali the attention of uuderwriters to a new material used for martingale rings, knife handles, conibs, etc, which we are informed bears the name of " Celluloid." It is to all appearances as hard as iron, and when cold possesses great strength and tenacity ; but it is inflanimable as tinder, and it burns more readily than pitoh. A flash of a match will set off a box of this material, made up in any form, and produce a conflagration so utterly at variance with the apparent solidity of the article that it seems Hke magie. A new class of " extra-hazardous" must be made by all of our fire companies if this is to pass into common use. We do not know how many fires may already be traceable to this preoaration, which evidently vaporizei at a comparatively low temperature.

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Michigan Argus