Excerpt from The Manufacture of Carbons for Electric Lighting and Other Purposes As some of the best carbon factories produce their own soot, the author has added a small chapter on this interesting subject, while it may be mentioned that one Austrian carbon factory also makes printing ink with the soot it produces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.