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Oscar Bruno Bach Born in Germany in 1884 and emigrated to the United States in 1913, Oscar Bruno Bach was a metallurgist and designer who, after many years of research, developed his own process enabling ferrous metals to sustain color and resist corrosion when used on building exteriors. Before the early 20th century, the use of mixed metals had been restricted to small works such as jewelry. Extraordinary skill and new techniques were required [...] Click here to continue reading. Meerschaum Pipes A German term, meerschaum literally means “sea-foam,” alluding to the ancient belief that it was the compressed whitecaps of waves. In reality, meerschaum is a hydrated magnesium silicate, composed of the fossilized shells of tiny sea creatures that fell to the ocean floor millions of years ago. It is meerchaum’s rigid crystalline structure, the arrangement of the magnesium, silicon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms, that makes sepiolite (the clay mineral that is identified [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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