THE BRITISH OXYGEN COMPANY LIMITED
... . . Barnacles in tlie Spanish Main One of the toughest and most tedious jobs in the days of the Jolly Roger was scraping weed and barnacles from the ship's bottom for re-painting or tarring. Indeed, scraping off old paint or fouling from any metal, particularly rust and scale from iron or steel, was always a slow, backbreaking job, until the scientist evolved the oxy- acetylene flame-brush. ...