Wood preservation preservation reaching back to ancient Greece during Alexander the Great's rule, where bridge wood was soaked in olive oil. The Romans protected their ship hulls by brushing the wood with tar. During the Industrial Revolution wood preservation became a cornerstone of the wood processing industry. Inventors and scientists such as Bethell, Boucherie, Burnett and Kyan made historic developments in wood preservation, with the preservative solutions and processes. Commercial pressure treatment began in the latter half of the 19th century with the protection of railroad cross-ties using creosote. Treated wood was used primarily for industrial, agricultural, and utility applications, where it
English words of Greek origin and spread to the others freely—including to Modern Greek. Traditionally, these coinages were constructed using only Greek morphemes, "e.g.", "metamathematics", but increasingly, Greek, Latin, and other morphemes are combined, as in "television" (Greek τῆλε + Latin "vision"), "metalinguistic" (Greek μετά + Latin "lingua" + Greek -ιστής + Greek -ικος), and "garbology" (English "garbage" + Greek -ολογία). These hybrid words were formerly considered to be 'barbarisms'. Some derivations are idiosyncratic, for example, "gas" from χάος; "hadron" from ἁδρός with the suffix "-on", itself abstracted from "anion" ἀνιόν; and "henotheism" < ἑνό(ς) 'one' + θεός 'god', though "eno-" is not used as