Linoleum (1860) ~ RoYaL HaCk NeTwOrK

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Blog No	9
Contain Type	*The Age Of Empires*
Invention	*Linoleum*
Year	*1860*

Walton Makes a wipe – clean wonder flooring

A few miles south of Manhattan, New York, is town called Travis up until 1930, that town was known as Linoleum Villa – the home of America’s first linoleum, owned by British inventor Frederick Walton.

Walton’s love affair with linoleum begins in the 1850s, when as the story goes, he noticed a skin that had appeared around the top of an old paint can. This skin was the result of simple reaction occurring between linseed oil to point & oxygen in the air. Most oil – based paints contain linseed oil; you've probably peeled off the rubbery solid that forms around the rim without even thinking about it. But Walton couldn't stop thinking about it. He embarked on a series of experiments that would eventually lead to process for manufacturing floor tiles from linseed oil.

His road to success was a rock one. In 1860, he filed a patent for a linoleum manufacturing method, but the method was by no means perfect Walton had worked out that by adding other ingredients to the mix, such as lead acetate he could get the linseed oil to react quicker.However, producing large amounts of the material was an arduous process and the big manufacturing companies were unwilling to invest. Even after setting up his own company, Walton found it hard to generate any interest.

Success come, finally off the black of a mass marketing campaign & in 1872, Walton's product went global when he opened his american factory. Today, lino is manufactured from a combination of resins, powdered limestone,cork, & of courses, linseed oil. Sheets of the mixture & are pressed into a canvas backing material.