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IN reviewing the first report of the Adhesive Research Committee, the present writer had occasion to remark on the extreme persistence of the three main types of adhesives, which documentary evidence shows to have been quite familiar to craftsmen of the eleventh century. Believers in proverbial wisdom may incline to the opinion that this familiarity, con tinued through generations, has indeed bred the con tempt with which the subject of adhesion—with or without adhesives—is generally treated in the litera ture of physics. In this respect the second report breaks entirely new ground in Appendix IV., entitled “Adhesives and Adhesive Action,” by Prof. J. W. McBain and Dr. D. G. Hopkins, in which the authors attempt, with a considerable' measure of success, to develop rational theories of the mechanism of ad hesive action.
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H., E. Adhesives and Adhesive Action1. Nature 118, 320–321 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118320b0
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