The use of gutta percha as an insulating covering for wire has given rise to a new era in telegraphic communication.
All the parings and old pieces should be saved, as gutta percha is not injured by use, and may be sold to the manufacturer in order to be restored and made up again.
When a tooth is too much decayed to be filled by a dentist, or the person is at a distance from one, gutta percha will be found an useful expedient.
An instrument made of caoutchouc, gutta percha, box-wood, or ivory, inserted into the vagina to support the mouth and neck of the uterus.
Flexible or elastic moulds may be made of gutta percha softened in boiling water, and after being freed from moisture, pressed strongly against the object to be copied by means of a screw press.
A triple coating of gutta percha, to keep the sea from sucking out the electricity, and a thick coating of iron wire, to sink the cable to the bottom and give it strength, were added to the copper rope, and then the cable was complete.
The disc of gutta percha is then placed in an empty Snider ball cartridge, &c.
It consists of a small disc of gutta percha, through which the ends of two wires are inserted about 1/4 inch apart, their ends terminating in small copper plates formed by hammering down the wire.
The whole is covered with a gutta percha bag, which is filled with fine grained gunpowder.
In the middle of this tray a developing stand of gutta percha is fixed to the bottom, on which to lay the glass plates.
It is very useful to make a gutta perchacap to cover over the bath when not in use; it protects it from dust and evaporation, and saves the continual loss of materials arising from pouring the solution backwards and forwards.
We consider glass baths are much superior togutta percha in every respect.
It is a striking characteristic of our age, and particularly as compared with the period when India-rubber was first sent to Europe, that the application of gutta percha to the arts immediately followed the discovery of the substance.
What the use of gutta percha is doing for the Malays, the use of palm-oil is doing for the Africans.
Cables in accordance with all the improvements that had taken place in machinery, as well as in the manufacture of gutta percha, since the laying of the Cable of 1858.
When the core was in position on these channelled drums, the circumference of the drum was closed in carefully by a sheet of gutta percha, which thus constituted its core-filled channel a sort of cylindrical box or packing case.
This is the great spinal cord of the establishment, consisting of a vast bundle of wires, insulated from each other by gutta percha.
Even of gutta percha, now applied as a coating to these wires, who can determine all the uses to which it may be found applicable?
A "cartridge" formed with a small hollow roof of gutta percha, charged with gunpowder, and having an intercommunicating wire attached, was then brought into contact with the electric current.
The chief use of gutta percha is now for electrical purposes.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gutta percha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
