1. Johann Urban was an Austrian chemist and industrialist.
11 Facts About Johann Urban
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Johann Urban was one of the pioneers of the artificial silk industry.
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Johann Urban was born on 7 June 1863 in Wuchern near Marburg in Lower Styria, Austrian Empire.
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Johann Urban studied mechanical and electrical engineering in Graz, and expected to work as a teacher at a state vocational school.
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In 1891 Fremery and Johann Urban adapted the Despaissis process to make electric lamp filaments from carbon fiber.
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Fremery and Johann Urban became involved in developing synthetic fiber in the mid-1890s.
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The success of the nitrocellulose fiber developed by Hilaire de Chardonnet encouraged Fremery and Johann Urban to investigate making artificial silk, which they named "Silkimit" and patented in 1897.
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Johann Urban had developed a process by 1897 that used rotating cylinders to stretch the fibers into finer filaments that could be used for making clothes.
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Fremery and Johann Urban moved their headquarters to Elberfeld, now a suburb of Wuppertal.
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Johann Urban became the technical director of the newly founded VGF.
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From 1904 Johann Urban was head of the Erste osterreichische Glanzstoff-Fabriken in Sankt Polten.