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Originally Posted by BigV
cool! missed the mark on fax, synthetic fibers, and antibiotics, whatever. Times, they are a'changin'!
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Interesting! I looked up when the first synthetic fibers were made and there seems to be a distinction between synthetic and artificial. Cellulose acetate, for example is made from processed cellulose and not strictly a synthetic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fiber
He was a few years off with Antibiotics and almost a century off with fax machines! Holy cats, who knew fax machines were that old?