Parkesine Now Hist.
(ˈpɑːksiːn)
[f. prec. + -ine5.]
A substance more or less identical with celluloid, based on pyroxylin and castor oil or camphor.
| 1862 Chem. News 9 Aug. 75/2 Parkesine.—A number of pretty and useful articles, formed of a material which the inventor, Mr. Parkes, has named after himself, are exhibited in Case 1112, Class IV. The basis of this material is the mixture of collodion and castor oil. 1868 Chambers's Encycl. X. 679/1 Parkesine was first shewn in quantity at the International Exhibition of 1862. 1911 E. C. Worden Nitrocellulose Industry I. xi. 364 Lewthwaite utilized the patented product of A. Parkes (called Parkesine) by ornamenting, embossing, and printing, and treated it in a manner similar to real leather. 1958 Times 25 Mar. (Careers in Industry Suppl.) p. xii/3 ‘Parkesine’ was the forerunner of ‘xylonite’ and is identical with ‘celluloid’, the American article which in the 1870's was the first commercially satisfactory plastics product. 1964 V. E. Yarsley et al. Cellulosic Plastics xv. 181 The celluloid of the Parkesine process was produced by squeezing out the dough between rolls and subsequently removing the residual volatile solvent. |