Cork insulation; a complete illustrated textbook on cork insulation ...

PREFACE
In submitting this first <strong>complete</strong> treatise on the sources,
harvesting, manufacture, distribution and uses of cork and
cork <strong>insulation</strong> products, the author believes that he has
succeeded in adding to scientific literature a work for which
there is at this period a real necessity and a genuine demand.
The collection of data on which tlie matter herein pub-
lished is based has necessitated many years of careful research
in a field widely scattered and rcc^uiring thought and
discriminating care in the separation of the grain from the
chafif in published matter sometimes of a more or less dissolute
nature and frequently of an unreliable character. Such matter as
is here presented can be considered authentic and authoritative
and relied upon unreservedly.
When consideration is given to the fact that in the half
century just passed the cork industry has developed and
progressed from a mere matter of production of bottle
stoppers to a diversified line of products covering hundreds of
separate items and involving cork imports valued at millions
of dollars per annum, some conception of the magnitude and
importance of the cork industry of the world can be formed.
For the architect, engineer, consulting expert, equipment
designer, car and steamship builder, plant owner, industrial
manager, and for every one interested in any way in refriger-
ation, ice making, cold storage, the operation of markets,
dairies, creameries, ice cream plants, the manufacture of household
and commercial refrigerators, insulating against both
heat and cold, sound-proofing, moisture-proofing, humidity
and temperature control, this book will be found indis-
pensable.
The rapid strides of the development of the cork industry
in this country have astonished even those who have been
and are now directly associated with the cork business, and
it is appreciated that as yet the possibilities of future applica-